AI & simulation
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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) examines the dynamics and principles that underlie complex, adaptive and interacting systems. Founded in 1984, SFI has only a small permanent staff. However, it has many short-term visitors and 'external faculty' and a few longer term resident fellows. SFI's focus includes all aspects of complexity, from the human immune system to the global economy. Elaborate, computer-intensive simulations, including models of interacting, adaptive, individual agents, are often used to investigate these subjects. The underlying methods involved include neural networks, genetic algorithms and classifier systems. Some of SFI's simulation techniques have mistakenly been viewed as artificial life by the popular media. Although the adaptive structures developed during SFI's simulations are amenable to many biological metaphors and can mimic some facets of human or animal intelligence, there is no implication that biological life forms have been created within the computer during this research.
Publication Name: SIMULATION
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0037-5497
Year: 1993
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A generic simulation module architecture based on clustering group technology model codings
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Simulation experts know very well that there are similarities between the models they build for different manufacturing systems. This article describes a module based generic model generator for discrete manufacturing systems. The module based generator was developed from a group technology (GT) classification scheme. The GT scheme uses common model features as a basis for creating generic model components. Specific user models are constructed by modifying and configuring the generic models rather than building them from scratch, thus reducing the effort and skill expected of the user in the process of model abstraction, construction, and validation/verification. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: SIMULATION
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0037-5497
Year: 1993
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