ESL: An Actor-Based Platform for Developing Emergent Behaviour Organisation Simulations

• Published in: Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection pp. 311 - 315
• Main Authors: Clark, Tony, Kulkarni, Vinay, Barat, Souvik, Barn, Balbir
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Aggregate System Behavior; Demonetization; Emergent Behavior; Logic-based Query Language; Reductionist View
• ISBN: 3319599291; 9783319599298
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59930-4_27

Specification and analysis of complex systems can be approached top-down or bottom-up [11]. A top-down approach conceptualises a system using a global state and the behaviour represented using an aggregated macro-behaviour of the system elements. For example, the System Dynamics (SD) model [8] uses the concepts of stocks, flows, feedback loops and time delays. A top-down approach considers a reductionist view [10] to understand system using the mathematical rigour from operational research, optimization theory, and sophisticated AI algorithms. A bottom-up approach, in contrast, considers the micro-behaviour of individual elements and their interactions. Conceptually, the bottom-up approach relies on emergentism [9] as advocated in actor model of computation [1], and agent-based systems [6].