Gireg Desmeulles, Stéphane Bonneaud, Pascal Redou,
Vincent Rodin and Jacques Tisseau.
In virtuo Experiments Based on the Multi-Interaction System Framework :
the RéISCOP Meta-Model.
CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences,
Tech Science Press, 47(3):299-330, 2009.
Abstract:
Virtual reality can enable computer scientists and domain experts to
perform in virtuo experiments of numerical models of complex
systems. Such dynamical and interactive experiments are indeed needed
when it comes to complex systems with complex dynamics and structures.
In this context, the question of the modeling tool to study such models
is crucial. Such tool, called a virtuoscope, must enable the virtual
experimentation of models inside a conceptual and experimental framework
for imagining, modeling and experimenting the complexity of the studied
systems. This article describes a conceptual framework and a meta model,
called RéISCOP, that enable the construction and simulation of models
of biological, chemical or physical systems. The multi-interaction conceptual
framework, based on the reification of interactions, is built upon the concepts
of autonomy, structural coupling and asynchronous scheduling of those reified
interactions. Applications and virtual reality experiments described in the
last section show the expressiveness of this approach and its capacity to
actually formulate heterogeneous models in heterogeneous time and space scales,
which is required for studying biological complex systems.
Keywords:
Complex system modeling, Autonomy, Virtual reality,
In virtuo experiments, Multi-interaction systems.
[doi:10.3970/cmes.2009.047.299]
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