Ok Steve. I see now more precisely what you mean.
Well, here is a reading (not so technical unfornately) but even so,
describing real cases:
http://www.antoptima.ch/pdf/pr_harvardbusiness_0105.pdf
Take a look for instance on what happened to Southwest Airlines.
Bonabeau has 3 more articles at Harvard Business Review.
Meanwhile, the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html) happens to have, from time to
time,
technical papers discussing implementations on this research direction.
It's free and online.
Hope this can help you digging more.
Best, Vitorino
~ 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.
At 13:29 09-11-2005, you wrote:
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
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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.
--
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