Tutorial: Advanced spatial systems with cellular discrete-event modeling and simulation

Author

Wainer, Gabriel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Grid-shaped cellular models have gained popularity as an effective approach to understand physical systems. Despite their usefulness to describe complex behavior, many cellular models require large amounts of compute time, mainly due to its synchronous nature. Besides this, cellular models do not describe adequately most of existing physical systems whose nature is asynchronous. In this tutorial we discuss different advanced methods for modeling and simulating cellular models. We introduce the main characteristics of the Cell-DEVS formalism, and show how to model cell spaces in an asynchronous environment.

Keywords

cellular automata; discrete event simulation; Cell-DEVS formalism; advanced spatial systems; asynchronous physical systems; cellular discrete event modeling; cellular discrete event simulation; complex behavior; discrete event specification formalism; grid-shaped cellular models; synchronous physical systems; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Couplings; Delay; Engines; Mathematical model; Ports (Computers);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2012 Winter

Conference_Location

Berlin

ISSN

0891-7736

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4779-2

Electronic_ISBN

0891-7736

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2012.6465323

Filename

6465323