Parallel and Distributed Agent-based Simulation of Large-scale Socio-technical Systems with Loosely Coupled Virtual Machines

Stefan Bosse

2021

Abstract

Agent-based systems are inherently distributed and parallel by a distributed memory model, but agent-based simulation is often characterised by a shared memory model. This paper discusses the challenges of and solution for large-scale distributed agent-based simulation using virtual machines. Simulation of large-scale multi-agent systems with more than 10000 agents on a single processor node requires high computational times that can be far beyond the constraints set by the users, e.g., in real-time capable simulations. Parallel and distributed simulation involves the transformation of shared to a communication-based distributed memory model that can create a significant communication overhead. In this work, instead distributing an originally monolithic simulator with visualisation, a loosely coupled distributed agent process platform cluster network performing the agent processing for simulation is monitored by a visualisation and simulation control service. A typical use case of traffic simulation in smart city context is used for evaluation the performance of the proposed DSEJAMON architecture.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bosse S. (2021). Parallel and Distributed Agent-based Simulation of Large-scale Socio-technical Systems with Loosely Coupled Virtual Machines. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-528-9, pages 344-351. DOI: 10.5220/0010553003440351

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech21,
author={Stefan Bosse},
title={Parallel and Distributed Agent-based Simulation of Large-scale Socio-technical Systems with Loosely Coupled Virtual Machines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2021},
pages={344-351},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010553003440351},
isbn={978-989-758-528-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Parallel and Distributed Agent-based Simulation of Large-scale Socio-technical Systems with Loosely Coupled Virtual Machines
SN - 978-989-758-528-9
AU - Bosse S.
PY - 2021
SP - 344
EP - 351
DO - 10.5220/0010553003440351