A framework for distributing agent-based simulations

  • Authors:
  • Gennaro Cordasco;Rosario De Chiara;Ada Mancuso;Dario Mazzeo;Vittorio Scarano;Carmine Spagnuolo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Caserta, Italy;ISISLab - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;ISISLab - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;ISISLab - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;ISISLab - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;ISISLab - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Agent-based simulation models are an increasingly popular tool for research and management in many, different and diverse fields. In executing such simulations the "speed" is one of the most general and important issues. The traditional answer to this issue is to invest resources in deploying a dedicated installation of dedicated computers. In this paper we present a framework that is a parallel version of the Mason, a library for writing and running Agent-based simulations.