MWGrid: A System for Distributed Agent-Based Simulation in the Digital Humanities
MWGrid: A System for Distributed Agent-Based Simulation in the Digital Humanities
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10.1109/ds-rt.2012.24
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2012-10
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B. Craenen;Phil Murgatroyd;G. Theodoropoulos;V. Gaffney;Vinoth Suryanarayanan
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作者：
B. Craenen;Phil Murgatroyd;G. Theodoropoulos;V. Gaffney;Vinoth Suryanarayanan
数字人文为基于代理的分布式模拟提供了一个令人兴奋的新领域。在历史研究中，解释很少超出未经证实的断言的水平，也很少针对一系列证据进行检验。基于代理的模拟可以提供打破这些学术主张和反主张循环的机会。 MWGrid 框架利用基于分布式代理的模拟来研究中世纪军事物流。作为一个用例，它重点关注拜占庭军队进军曼齐克特战役（公元 1071 年）的后勤分析，这是中世纪历史上的一个关键事件。它集成了代理设计模板、透明的分层机制（将模型级代理的操作转换为带时间戳的事件）以及 PDES-MAS 分布式仿真内核。本文概述了 MWGrid 系统并对其性能进行了定量评估。
Digital Humanities offer a new exciting domain for agent-based distributed simulation. In historical studies interpretation rarely rises above the level of unproven assertion and is rarely tested against a range of evidence. Agent-based simulation can provide an opportunity to break these cycles of academic claim and counterclaim. The MWGrid framework utilises distributed agent based simulation to study medieval military logistics. As a use-case, it has focused on the logistical analysis of the Byzantine army's march to the battle of Manzikert (AD 1071), a key event in medieval history. It integrates an agent design template, a transparent, layered mechanism to translate model-level agents' actions to time stamped events and the PDES-MAS distributed simulation kernel. The paper presents an overview of the MWGrid system and a quantitative evaluation of its performance.