A MultiAgent Environment for MPSEs
Tzvetan Drashansky, Anupam Joshi, John R. Rice, Elias N. Houstis, Sanjiva Weerawarana · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 1996
In this paper we present a paradigm for simulating complex phenomena which may involve multiple physical phenomena and complicated geometry. The computational structure is of cooperating agents and much of the proposed methodology is widely applicable, but the focus in this paper is on phenomena modeled by partial differential equations (PDE). The computational process is to subdivide the physical object into components of simple geometric shapes modeled by a single problem solving environment (PSE). PSEs are viewed as agents which solve the PDE on each component independently. The interfaces between the components must have physical interface conditions satisfied; mediator agents use relaxation techniques for this. An agent-based architecture of an environment for building systems to implement this paradigm is described, using PSEs which are encapsulated into solver agents. This approach is naturally parallel and highly scalable; it is suitable for a wide variety of parallel ...