[REBOL] Distributed agent simulation Re:
From: p_trotter:yaho:o at: 23-Sep-2000 1:05
Jack,
its not quite a LINDA implementation - though some of
the concepts do equate. A simulation space provides
similar fnctionality to a tuple space in that its a
common envionment and the agent host provides
interprocess comms and stuff. The big difference is
that agents communicate via messages rather than
through manipulation of a shared memory space (at
least as traditionally conceived in C-Linda).
Architecturally the systen lies in the space defined
by the Sante Fe Institutes' Swarm project, MIT's HIVE
and the Tech. University of Berlin's Grasshopper agent
platform. The original version in C was designed about
five years ago for ecological simulation - REBOL lets
me tidy up,simplify and extend much of the code (
though admittedly provides a few learning headaches at
the same time).
as for more info - the project is commercially based,
though all participants have agreed to release code
and docs after initial phases are complete. The
project web site is scheduled to go public the in late
Otober and I'll publish the URL here and add you to
the email news list.
PT
