Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS'05) 

Part of the 2005 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'05)

 

AGENT-DIRECTED SIMULATION AND SMART-PACKET NETWORKS

by

Erol Gelenbe
Denis Gabor Chair
Imperial College
London, UK

Abstract

Agents allow large scale software systems to be broken down into autonomous and interacting components without the need to specify an overall control structure. This significantly simplifies system specification and improves the prospect for system scalability, however it raises questions about the overall harmoniuous and robust behaviour of the system. Our talk will address both theoretical issues and practical implementations based on our practical work on agent based simulation and on the use of agents for the distributed control of packet switched networks.

 

 

URL: www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe

  

A graduate of METU (Ankara, Turkey), Erol Gelenbe is Fellow of IEEE, of ACM and of the IEE (London). His research has covered system performance methodology, queueing networks, as well as other modeling methodologies such as neural networks and augmented reality. Over the last decade he has developed new stochastic network models with "product form", and has also invented new quality of service based network routing algorithms, and neural network based image processing schemes. His honours  include the doctorate "honoris causa" from University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), the honorary doctorate from Bogazici University (Istanbul), the Prix France Telecom of the French Academy of Science, and the Parlar Foundation Science Award (Turkey). He has been decorated by the French government with the medals of Chevalier and Officier de  l'Ordre National du Merite, and Chevalier des Palmes Academiques.