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Programming Languages and Systems: CoSMoS

Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation

The CoSMoS project will build capacity in generic modelling tools and simulation techniques for complex systems, to support the modelling, analysis and prediction of complex systems, and to help design and validate complex systems. Drawing on our state-of-the-art expertise in many aspects of computer systems engineering, we will develop CoSMoS, a modelling and simulation process and infrastructure specifically designed to allow complex systems to be explored, analysed, and designed within a uniform framework.

People:

Peter Welch Principal Investigator Fred Barnes Co-Investigator John Markus Bjørndalen Visiting Researcher Carl Ritson Developer Adam Sampson Research Associate Douglas Warren Research Student

Selected publications:

• Investigating Patterns for the Process-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Space in Complex Systems. A.T. Sampson, P.H. Welch, D.N. Warren, P.S. Andrews, J.M. Bjørndalen, S.Stepney, and J. Timmis. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson, and M. A. Bedau, editors, Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pages 17-24, Cambridge, MA, USA., August 2008. MIT Press. (more details) download publication

Other publications:

• A process-oriented architecture for complex system modelling. Carl G. Ritson and Peter H. Welch. In Alistair A. McEwan, Steve Schneider, Wilson Ifill, and Peter Welch, editors, Communicating Process Architectures 2007, volume 65 of Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, pages 249-266, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007. IOS Press. (more details) download publication KAR:14575

• Lazy Cellular Automata with Communicating Processes. A.T. Sampson, P.H. Welch, and F.R.M. Barnes. In J.F. Broenink, H.W. Roebbers, J.P.E. Sunter, P.H. Welch, and D.C. Wood, editors, Communicating Process Architectures 2005, volume 63 of Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, pages 165-175, IOS Press, The Netherlands, September 2005. IOS Press. (more details) download publication

• An Architecture for Modelling Emergence in CA-Like Systems. Fiona Polack, Susan Stepney, Heather Turner, Peter Welch, and Fred Barnes. In Mathieu S. Capcarr`ere, Alex Alves Freitas, Peter J. Bentley, Colin G. Johnson, and Jon Timmis, editors, Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), volume 3630 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 427-436, Canterbury, UK, September 2005. Springer. (more details) download publication

• Multicore Scheduling for Lightweight Communicating Processes. Carl G. Ritson, Adam T. Sampson, and Frederick R. M. Barnes. In John Field and Vasco Thudichum Vasconcelos, editors, Coordination Models and Languages, 11th International Conference, COORDINATION 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, June 9-12, 2009. Proceedings, volume 5521 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 163-183. Springer, June 2009. (more details) download publication

• Birds on the wall: Distributing a process-oriented simulation. Adam T. Sampson, John Markus Bjørndalen, and Paul S. Andrews. In 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), pages 225-231. IEEE Press, May 2009. (more details) download publication

• The engineering of concurrent simulations of complex systems. Fiona A.C. Polack, Paul S. Andrews, and Adam T. Sampson. In 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), pages 217-224. IEEE Press, May 2009. (more details) download publication

• Simulating biology: towards understanding what the simulation shows. Paul S. Andrews, Fiona Polack, Adam T. Sampson, Lisa Scott, and Mark Coles. In Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack, and Peter Welch, editors, Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation, York, UK, September 2008, pages 93-123. Luniver Press, September 2008. (more details) download publication

• Process-oriented collective operations. John Markus Bjørndalen and Adam T. Sampson. In Peter H. Welch, Susan Stepney, Fiona A.C. Polack, Frederick R.M. Barnes, Alistair A. McEwan, Gardner S. Stiles, Jan F. Broenink, and Adam T. Sampson, editors, Communicating Process Architectures 2008, volume 66 of Concurrent Systems Engineering, pages 309-328, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2008. WoTUG, IOS Press. (more details) download publication

• Complex systems models: engineering simulations. Fiona A.C. Polack, Tim Hoverd, Adam T. Sampson, Susan Stepney, and Jon Timmis. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson, and M. A. Bedau, editors, Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pages 482-489, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 2008. MIT Press. (more details) download publication

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