@inproceedings{d8881d0f7aac4098a943ee9665d8aa8f,
title = "Scalability in the MASON Multi-Agent Simulation System",
abstract = "This paper describes Distributed MASON, a distributed version of the MASON agent-based simulation tool. Distributed MASON is architected to take advantage of well known principles from Parallel and Discrete Event Simulation, such as the use of Logical Processes (LP) as a method for obtaining scalable and high performing simulation systems. We first explain data management and sharing between LPs and describe our approach to load balancing. We then present both a local greedy approach and a global hierarchical approach. Finally, we present the results of our implementation of Distributed MASON on an instance in the Amazon Cloud, using several standard multi-agent models. The results indicate that our design is highly scalable and achieves our expected levels of speed-up.",
author = "Haoliang Wang and Ermo Wei and Robert Simon and Sean Luke and Andrew Crooks and David Freelan and Carmine Spagnuolo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, DS-RT 2018 ; Conference date: 15-10-2018 Through 17-10-2018",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1109/DISTRA.2018.8601006",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, DS-RT 2018",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "135--144",
editor = "Eva Besada and Polo, \{Oscar Rodriguez\} and \{De Grande\}, Robson and \{De Grande\}, Robson and \{Risco Martin\}, \{Jose Luis\}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, DS-RT 2018",
address = "United States",
}