Wish I could be there, but I have meeting conflicts.
--Doug
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com>
wrote:
> ** reminder **
> ** today at noon **
>
> Dale Schumacher and Dave West
>
> TITLE: On Actors and Agents: an informal discussion with Dale Schumacher
> and
> Dave West
>
> TIME: Thur, February 28 @ 12:00p
> LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
>
> Lunch at El Tesoro after discussion
>
> ABSTRACT: Dale has an intense interest in massively parallel and "agent"
> based
> modeling and has been working on some ideas about implementation and
> frameworks
> for such modeling based on the Actor model developed by Hewitt. Actors,
> Agents,
> and Objects can be seen as sharing the same origin myth / metaphor -
> autonomous
> intelligent virtual computers - but represent three different approaches
> to
> implementing that metaphor.
>
> Actors have made the least headway in capturing the imagination of ABM'ers
> but
> Dale believes they might offer advantages that the other approaches do
> not. He
> also has some interesting - low level, close to the machine - ideas about
> implementation that might contribute to more efficient and elegant ABM
> frameworks.
>
>
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