Capturing emergent behavior within the DEVS framework

FOGUELMAN, DANIEL; CASTRO, RODRIGO

Gothemburg

Conferencia; 51th Winter Simulation Conference; 2018

Analyzing complex adaptive systems is a challenging task. Nature and its governing rules do not always present clear patterns. The hypothesis of emergent properties in such systems is hard to formulate and complex to infer. In this context, a great effort is being done by the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) community towards modeling emergent behavior. Our research proposes minimal modifications into the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) M&S framework that brings the detection of emergent behavior into the loop of a DEVS simulation. Novel behavior is encoded into the DEVS layered structure bridging the macro and micro levels. A proof of concept was implemented for the canonical Boids model.