Hello complex systems enthusiasts and good morning.
It is 06:07 now, meaning that it’s less then 3 hours untill a new ICECCS (International Conference on Complex Computer Systems) session gets underway in Oxford. Collocated with ICECCS is the CoSMoS special session, organised by Paul Andrews, Fiona Polack and Adam Sampson.
Looking through the proceedings, I can see we have quite an interesting day ahead of us. Here are just a few examples of papers to be presented:
- Stibor T and Salazar-Banuelos A, “On Immunological Memory as a Function of a Recursive Proliferation Process“: essentially authors present a grid-based model of recursive proliferation of cells, and claim it explains immunological memory. The model is explicitely validated throuh simulation and reference to immunological literature.
- Kremers E, Viejo P, Barambones O and de Durana J G, “A Complex Systems Modelling Approach for Decentralised Simulation of Electric Microgrids“: an agent-based simulation of an electric microgrid. Different from centralised, hierarchical electric grids, microgrids are decentralised. Agent-based modelling is then a natural solution and authors go a long way to create their multi-paradigm simulation: although it is agent-based, each agent contains mathematical models for the various types of electric nodes it represents.
From our CoSMoS team we also have:
- Polack F, Andrews P, Ghetiu T, Read M, Stepney S, Timmis J and Sampson A T, “Reflections on the Simulation of Complex Systems for Science“: the paper looks at the reasons why agent-based simulations are still an exotic, rather than a common tool for scientific research. A key element is shown to be the development of trust between developers and scientists. Authors detail essential ingredients for developing this trust and exemplify them through reference to various case-studies.
- Hoverd T, Sampson A T, “A Transactional Architecture for Simulation“: authors focus on the fact that agent-based simulations are often transactional – agents query or update their environment. Consequently, optimisation techniques from the field of data bases can be employed in such simulations, effects being evidently beneficial.
There are more papers and posters to be accounted for, but this is definitely “future work”. A good day to everyone.