relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1697/
title: Statistical analysis of chemical computational systems with MULTIVESTA and ALCHEMIST 
creator: Pianini, Danilo
creator: Sebastio, Stefano
creator: Vandin, Andrea
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: The chemical-oriented approach is an emerging paradigm for programming the behaviour of densely distributed and context-aware devices (e.g. in ecosystems of displays tailored to crowd steering, or to obtain profile-based coordinated visualization). Typically, the evolution of such systems cannot be easily predicted, thus making of paramount importance the availability of techniques and tools supporting prior-to-deployment analysis. Exact analysis techniques do not scale well when the complexity of systems grows: as a consequence, approximated techniques based on simulation assumed a relevant role. This work presents a new simulation-based distributed tool addressing the statistical analysis of such a kind of systems, which has been obtained by chaining two existing tools: MultiVeStA and Alchemist. The former is a recently proposed lightweight tool which allows to enrich existing discrete event simulators with distributed statistical analysis capabilities, while the latter is an efficient simulator for chemical-oriented computational systems. The tool is validated against a crowd steering scenario, and insights on the performance are provided by discussing how these scale distributing the analysis tasks on a multi-core architecture.
date: 2013-09
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1697/1/Pianini_Sebastio_Vandin_WP_2013.pdf
identifier:   Pianini, Danilo and Sebastio, Stefano and Vandin, Andrea  Statistical analysis of chemical computational systems with MULTIVESTA and ALCHEMIST.  Working Paper  # /2013        (Submitted)