Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons Computational Modeling & Simulation Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Theses & Dissertations Engineering Winter 2012 Partitioning Method for Emergent Behavior Systems Modeled by Agent-Based Simulations O. Thomas Holland Old Dominion University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/msve_etds Part of the Computer Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Holland, O. T.. "Partitioning Method for Emergent Behavior Systems Modeled by Agent-Based Simulations" (2012). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Dissertation, Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/wqf0-ke57 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/msve_etds/36 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PARTITIONING METHOD FOR EMERGENT BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS MODELED BY AGENT-BASED SIMULATIONS by O. Thomas Holland B. S. E. E. 1983, Tennessee Technological University M. S. E. E. 1996, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dominion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY MODELING AND SIMULATION OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY December 2012 Approved by: John Sokolowski (Director) ^rederic D. McKenitfe (Member) -?Cndreas Tolk (Member) Bruce Copeland (Member) ABSTRACT PARTITIONING METHOD FOR EMERGENT BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS MODELED BY AGENT-BASED SIMULATIONS O. Thomas Holland Old Dominion University, 2012 Director: Dr. John Sokolowski Used to describe some interesting and usually unanticipated pattern or behavior, the term emergence is often associated with time-evolutionary systems comprised of relatively large numbers of interacting yet simple entities.