An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
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Complex systems are composed of many heterogeneous elements organized in a hierarchical way, whose mutual interactions make emergent collective behaviors to appear at the highest levels of observation. In biology, as shown by the integrative physiology theory [2], space and geometry have a significant role in the simulation results. In this paper we expose a process, and its set of formalisms, for modeling and simulation of complex system, going from structural modeling to dynamic simulation while integrating geometrical information in behavior study. Our solution relies on three kind of concepts and techniques: hierarchical graphs for modeling the system structure and organization, Zeigler's formalisms for the specification of components [6] and a space aware Multi Agent System for agent-based simulation.