A transactional architecture for simulation

Tim Hoverd; Adam T. Sampson

doi:10.1109/ICECCS.2010.7

A transactional architecture for simulation

Tim Hoverd^*
, Adam T. Sampson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We are developing a concurrent, agent-based approach to complex systems simulation as part of the CoSMoS project. In such simulations an agent's behaviour can typically be characterised as a series of queries and updates to its environment - a "transactional" pattern of interaction familiar to programmers of database systems. We explore how ideas from the field of databases, such as optimistic approaches to consistency and replication, may profitably be applied to the field of simulation, and how the constraints of modern databases can be relaxed to yield better performance while maintaining simulation validity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems 2010
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	286-290
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424466399
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.2010.7
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2010

Keywords

Concurrency control
Database concurrency operations
Science
Simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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