Wish I could be there, but I have meeting conflicts. --Doug
-- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Stephen Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** reminder ** > ** today at noon ** > > Dale Schumacher and Dave West > > TITLE: On Actors and Agents: an informal discussion with Dale Schumacher > and > Dave West > > TIME: Thur, February 28 @ 12:00p > LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room > > Lunch at El Tesoro after discussion > > ABSTRACT: Dale has an intense interest in massively parallel and "agent" > based > modeling and has been working on some ideas about implementation and > frameworks > for such modeling based on the Actor model developed by Hewitt. Actors, > Agents, > and Objects can be seen as sharing the same origin myth / metaphor - > autonomous > intelligent virtual computers - but represent three different approaches > to > implementing that metaphor. > > Actors have made the least headway in capturing the imagination of ABM'ers > but > Dale believes they might offer advantages that the other approaches do > not. He > also has some interesting - low level, close to the machine - ideas about > implementation that might contribute to more efficient and elegant ABM > frameworks. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
