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Cloning Agent-Based Simulation

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Stephen J. TurnerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), Volume 27, Issue 2

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/3013529

Published: 27 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Simulation cloning is an efficient way to analyze multiple configurations in a parameter exploration task. A simulation model usually contains a set of tunable parameters for exploring different configurations of a system. To evaluate different design alternatives, multiple simulation instances need to be launched, each evaluating a different parameter configuration. It usually takes a considerable amount of time to execute these simulation instances. Simulation cloning is proposed to reuse computations among simulation instances and to shorten the overall execution time. It is a challenging task to design cloning strategies to explore the computation sharing among simulation instances while maintaining the correctness of execution. In this article, we propose two agent-based simulation (ABS) cloning strategies, the top-down cloning strategy and the bottom-up cloning strategy. The top-down cloning strategy is initially designed and can only be applied to limited scenarios. The bottom-up cloning strategy is an improved strategy to overcome the limitation of the top-down cloning strategy. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the two strategies is analyzed. To show the performance advantages and generality of the bottom-up cloning strategy, a large-scale ABS parameter exploration task is performed, and results are discussed in the article.

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Cloning Agent-Based Simulation
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Parallel architectures
      1. Single instruction, multiple data
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Agent / discrete models
      2. Massively parallel and high-performance simulations

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ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation Volume 27, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/3015562

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Published: 27 May 2017

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Received: 01 December 2015

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