Communications of the ACM
Parallel discrete event simulation
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on simulation
Dynamic load management in the time warp operating system
Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International
Parallel proximity detection and the distribution list algorithm
PADS '94 Proceedings of the eighth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event systems
Parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event systems
Dynamic load balancing of a multi-cluster simulator on a network of workstations
PADS '95 Proceedings of the ninth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Background execution of time warp programs
PADS '96 Proceedings of the tenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 1
MACE3J: fast flexible distributed simulation of large, large-grain multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Egocentric context-aware programming in ad hoc mobile environments
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
On Process Migration and Load Balancing in Time Warp
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
VRAIS '95 Proceedings of the Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS'95)
LIME: A Middleware for Physical and Logical Mobility
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A new approach to scalable Linda-systems based on swarms
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
IBM Systems Journal
Introducing the tileworld: experimentally evaluating agent architectures
AAAI'90 Proceedings of the eighth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
An Adaptive Load Management Mechanism for Distributed Simulation of Multi-agent Systems
DS-RT '05 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
Distributed simulation of agent-based systems with HLA
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Distributed Simulation of Situated Multi-agent Systems
DS-RT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
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Decentralised, event-driven distributed simulation is particularly suitable for modelling systems with inherent asynchronous parallelism, such as agent-based systems. However the efficient simulation of multi-agent systems presents particular challenges which are not addressed by standard parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) models and techniques. PDES approaches based on the logical process paradigm assume a fixed decomposition into processes, each of which maintains its own portion of the state of the simulation. The interaction between the processes is fixed in advance and does not change during the simulation. In contrast, simulations of MAS typically have a large shared state, the agents' environment, which is only loosely associated with any particular process. In this paper, we present a model of the shared state of a distributed MAS simulation of situated agents. We consider the problems of efficient sensing, parallel actions and action conflicts, and present preliminary work on an approach to the simulation of the environment which addresses these issues.