Using formal specifications to support testing

RM Hierons, K Bogdanov, JP Bowen… - ACM Computing …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Formal methods and testing are two important approaches that assist in the development of
high-quality software. While traditionally these approaches have been seen as rivals, in …

A survey on parallel and distributed multi-agent systems for high performance computing simulations

A Rousset, B Herrmann, C Lang, L Philippe - Computer Science Review, 2016 - Elsevier
Simulation has become an indispensable tool for researchers to explore systems without
having recourse to real experiments. Depending on the characteristics of the modeled …

High performance cellular level agent-based simulation with FLAME for the GPU

P Richmond, D Walker, S Coakley… - Briefings in …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Driven by the availability of experimental data and ability to simulate a biological scale
which is of immediate interest, the cellular scale is fast emerging as an ideal candidate for …

Formal agent-based modelling of intracellular chemical interactions

M Pogson, R Smallwood, E Qwarnstrom, M Holcombe - Biosystems, 2006 - Elsevier
Individual-based or agent-based models have proved useful in a variety of different
biological contexts. This paper presents an agent-based model using a formal …

Exploitation of high performance computing in the FLAME agent-based simulation framework

S Coakley, M Gheorghe, M Holcombe… - 2012 IEEE 14th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design of an agent-based modelling framework for high
performance computing. Rather than a collection of methods that require parallel …

Introducing spatial information into predictive NF-κB modelling–an agent-based approach

M Pogson, M Holcombe, R Smallwood… - PLoS One, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Nature is governed by local interactions among lower-level sub-units, whether at the cell,
organ, organism, or colony level. Adaptive system behaviour emerges via these interactions …

An integrated systems biology approach to understanding the rules of keratinocyte colony formation

T Sun, P McMinn, S Coakley… - Journal of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Closely coupled in vitro and in virtuo models have been used to explore the self-
organization of normal human keratinocytes (NHK). Although it can be observed …

FLAME GPU 2: A framework for flexible and performant agent based simulation on GPUs

P Richmond, R Chisholm, P Heywood… - Software: Practice …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Agent based modelling (ABM) offers a powerful abstraction for scientific study in a broad
range of domains. The use of agent based simulators encourages good software …

The limits to credit growth: Mitigation policies and macroprudential regulations to foster macrofinancial stability and sustainable debt

S van der Hoog - Computational Economics, 2018 - Springer
In this paper we study an economy with a high degree of financialization in which (non-
financial) firms need loans from commercial banks to finance production, service debt, and …

Flame gpu: Complex system simulation framework

P Richmond, MK Chimeh - 2017 International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FLAME GPU is an agent based simulation frame-work that utilises the parallel architecture of
Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) to enable real time model interaction and visualisation. In …