presentation - IIASA

SOCIETY of SIMULATIONS
APPROACH TO LINKING
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
• Problem: How do you link local virtual environments
(models) developed with local semantics into a global
virtual environment (integrated model) with a common
semantics? (This is the problem of the Semantic web;
also, to a large degree, the aggregation problem)
• A Society of Simulations is analogous to a society of
people, as both are loosely coupled constructs in which
independent individuals contribute toward a single
societal identity. A society is an organized group of
individuals who associate for common purposes.
• Likewise, autonomous simulations in a Society of
Simulations work together to achieve the common goal
of modeling the system.