Making sense of actor behaviour: an algebraic filmstrip pattern and its implementation

Clark, Tony, Barn, Balbir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7251-5033, Kulkarni, Vinay and Barat, Souvik (2019) Making sense of actor behaviour: an algebraic filmstrip pattern and its implementation. ISEC'19 Proceedings of the 12th Innovations on Software Engineering Conference (formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference). In: ISEC'19 Proceedings of the 12th Innovations on Software Engineering Conference (formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference), 14-16 Feb 2019, Pune, India. ISBN 9781450362153. (doi:10.1145/3299771.3299783)

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Abstract

Sense-making with respect to actor-based systems is challenging because of the non-determinism arising from concurrent behaviour. One strategy is to produce a trace of event histories that can be processed post-execution. Given a semantic domain, the histories can be translated into visual representations of the semantics in the form of filmstrips. This paper proposes a general pattern for the production of filmstrips from actor histories that can be implemented in a way that is independent of the particular data types used to represent the events, semantics and graphical displays. We demonstrate the pattern with respect to a simulation involving
predators and prey which is a typical agent-based application.

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