MOVIE - A Software Environment For Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems

Wojtek Furmanski; Geoffrey Fox

doi:10.1117/12.969925

1 February 1990 MOVIE - A Software Environment For Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems

Wojtek Furmanski, Geoffrey Fox

Proceedings Volume 1196, Intelligent Control and Adaptive Systems; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969925
Event: 1989 Symposium on Visual Communications, Image Processing, and Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

We discuss here the basic elements of the new software system for large scale computation -MOVIE- (Metashell based Object oriented Visual Interactive Environment), recently designed and implemented at Caltech within the Caltech Concurrent Computation Program. From the research perspective, the goal of the MOVIE project is to create a simulation environment for modeling complex systems, with the focus on computational structures capable to adapt and act "intelligently", such as ensembles of image processing, early vision, neural network and Artificial Intelligence modules, integrated in the form of "neural robots". The high level MOVIE model, based on portable communication and computation protocol is suitable for large scale "intelligence engineering" by modeling such systems in distributed heterogeneous multicomputer environment and porting successful implementations to dedicated massively parallel hardware. From the software engineering point of view, the MOVIE model offers a platform for unifying elements of contemporary computing such as networking, windowing, parallelism, number crunching and symbolic processing. The basic idea, borrowed from Sun NeWS, is to use an appropriately extended PostScript as the unifying language. The MOVIE extension aims at promoting PostScript to a general purpose high level object oriented language with a high performance user expandable computational sector, fully compatible with the Adobe model for 2D graphics and the Sun X11 /NeWS model for windowing and multitasking.

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Wojtek Furmanski and Geoffrey Fox "MOVIE - A Software Environment For Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems", Proc. SPIE 1196, Intelligent Control and Adaptive Systems, (1 February 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969925

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