eprintid: 1697
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6
dir: disk0/00/00/16/97
datestamp: 2013-09-12 11:13:50
lastmod: 2016-07-13 10:47:18
status_changed: 2013-09-12 11:13:50
type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Pianini, Danilo
creators_name: Sebastio, Stefano
creators_name: Vandin, Andrea
creators_id: 
creators_id: stefano.sebastio@imtlucca.it
creators_id: andrea.vandin@imtlucca.it
title: Statistical analysis of chemical computational systems with MULTIVESTA and ALCHEMIST 
ispublished: submitted
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
abstract: 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
number:  
pages: 8
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
citation:   Pianini, Danilo and Sebastio, Stefano and Vandin, Andrea  Statistical analysis of chemical computational systems with MULTIVESTA and ALCHEMIST.  Working Paper  # /2013        (Submitted)   
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1697/1/Pianini_Sebastio_Vandin_WP_2013.pdf