Our Focus

Our research is focused on high performance simulation: How can we make simulation, faster, more effective and easier to use?  These are the questions that motivate our research.

We have been actively involved in DES research in several ways, including: Just in Time Cloning, Merging, Caching, and Optimistic Load balancing.  This work has been published at the peer-reviewed conferences Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems (PADS) and the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC).  In our most recent work we are investigating how to support agent-based simulation on discrete event simulation platforms.

Recent Work: DES & Agent-Based Hybrid Simulation. 

Most research in high performance simulation over the last decade has focused on parallel and distributed discrete event simulation (PDES). As a consequence, the PDES literature offers a rich set of techniques for distributed and efficient simulation.  However, there is a growing need for simulators that support agent-based applications, and PDES systems are not always well suited for these applications. Example agent-based applications include simulation of biological systems such as ants and bees, multi-robot systems, and battlefield simulations.

Our approach is to provide middleware between an agent-based API and a PDES simulation kernel.  The result is a simulation system that offers an agent-based API for the programmer to a high performance PDES system.