Ok, so now that we have our trip down OOP Memory Land out of the way, a few questions:
1) What are the agents in this > 1.0E^6 agent simulation? 2) What are the rules that define how they interact? 3) What are the communications requirements between agents? 4) What is the compute infrastructure? 5) What are the desired results from running the ABM? --Doug On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@redfish.com>wrote: > So a few of us are exploring new ways of constructing scalable distributed > agent systems and are playing around with architecting a first instantiation > in either Javascript or in Smalltalk. We are interested in architecting a > system that grow and evolve without collapsing on the weight of itself, much > in the same way the Internet has been able to grow over the last 40 years > without a reboot. > > Relatedly, I was watching Alan Kay's'97 OOPSLA address < > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521>, and his > call for a Universal Interface Language popped out at me and I looked around > for potential implementations since then. Wikipedia claims there hasn't been > one yet: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Interface_Language> > > I was wondering if folks know of any candidates for a Universal Interface > Language that wikipedia authors may have missed. > > And, if we were to make our own, should we start with a REST-like protocol > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer> > supplemented by server-side javascript or other such animal? > > -Steve > > --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... > stephen.gue...@redfish.com > (m) 505.577.5828 (o) 505.995.0206 > redfish.com _ sfcomplex.org _ simtable.com_ lava3d.com > > > > >
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