Douglas Roberts wrote:
There are many alternative simulation styles to an ABM simulation
architecture:
* Discrete-event queuing models
* Continuous systems simulation (ex: CSMP)
* Procedural discrete event (ex: SimSCRIPT)
* CA
The use (or not) of a subroutine in the underlying code has nothing
to do with the simulation architecture being used.
Each of these is a recipe of sorts, and it ought be be possible with
static analysis techniques or runtime profiling (tracking the life and
death of objects, intra-agent mutations, and inter-agent communication)
to detect that recipe, or at least contrast it to others. Like having
cake and knowing it is not a cookie.
Marcus
P.S. Last night's 60 minutes had a fun piece on functional MRI. Person
thinks `hammer' and the computer predicts from the scan data that the
user is thinking `hammer'. Person thinks `apartment', the computer
predicts apartment. Folks at LANL are working on this too
http://www.lanl.gov/quarterly/q_spring03/squid_text.shtml
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