Towards a Framework for ABSS on the Grid

This proposal is to develop a framework for agent based social simulation on the Grid. The proposal is oriented to social systems which model size is important, thus we require means to scale up models and not limit simulation size. Furthermore, agents that comprise these models should be able to make use of distributed computational resources. Therefore, aiming to facilitate the scalability of ABSS systems, we propose the design and development of a framework for distributed simulation based on the Grid. This framework will harness Grid resources for distributed simulation execution environment. For this to achieve, a new challenge have to be addressed: the efficient execution of MAS on Grid environments.