Complex systems modelling and simulation is becoming increasingly important to numerous disciplines. The CoSMoS project aims to produce a unified infrastructure for modelling and simulating all sorts of complex systems, making use of design patterns and the process-oriented programming model. We present a case study into the modelling of space in complex systems. We describe how two models of space absolute geometric space and relational network space can be modelled using process-oriented techniques, and how our models can be refactored to allow efficient, distributed simulation. We identify a number of design, implementation and refactoring patterns that can be used to solve future complex systems modelling problems.
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@inproceedings(SS-ALife08a, author = "Paul S. Andrews and Adam T. Sampson and John Markus Bj{\o}rndalen and Susan Stepney and Jon Timmis and Douglas N. Warren and Peter H. Welch", title = "Investigating Patterns for the Process-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Space in Complex Systems", pages = "17-24", crossref = "ALife08" ) @proceedings(ALife08, title = "ALife XI, Winchester, UK, August 2008", booktitle = "ALife XI, Winchester, UK, August 2008", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 2008 )