Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Material and Data Flow

[Steven H. Rogers]

G'day Vitorino:

I've seen Swarm simulations for ecological, social, and physical processes, 
but I haven't seen any for manufacturing operations or port facilities, 
which are often modeled with discrete event simulation systems.  The 
operations I'm interested in modeling is relatively complex with a 
combination of central and distributed control, various semi-autonomous 
machines, and humans.  Bottlenecks are possible for both material flow and 
data flow.  Experiments with the actual systems, or even subsets, are expensive.

I think Swarm may have some advantages as the behavioral complexity of 
individual entities/agents increases and the numbers and variety of agents 
increases.  I haven't looked at Pietro Terna's jES in detail yet, but it may 
be close to what I have in mind.  While the operation I'm interested in 
modeling is not an entire enterprise, it is quite substantial.

Regards,
Steve
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Vitorino RAMOS wrote:
> At 04:32 09-11-2005, you wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in modeling a data intensive manufacturing system where 
> > both material and data flows are important.  Has Swarm been used in 
> > similar applications?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> >
> > --
> > Steven H. Rogers, Ph.D., address@hidden
> > Weblog: http://shrogers.com/weblog
> > "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
> > -- John McCarthy
>
>
> Steve. Can you be a little more specific. Best, v.
>
>
> ~ v. ramos. http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/,
> [...] Interactions among many sporuliferous and ubiquitous abstractions 
> may lead to increasing reality [...], Vitorino Ramos, 2001.
>  

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"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
-- John McCarthy