An Agent-Based Simulation API for Speculative PDES Runtime Environments

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) is an effective paradigm to model systems exhibiting complex interactions, also with the goal of studying the emergent behavior of these systems. While ABMS has been effectively used in many disciplines, many successful models are still run only sequentially. Relying on simple and easy-to-use languages such as NetLogo limits the possibility to benefit from more effective runtime paradigms, such as speculative Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES). In this paper, we discuss a semantically-rich API allowing to implement Agent-Based Models in a simple and effective way. We also describe the critical points which should be taken into account to implement this API in a speculative PDES environment, to scale up simulations on distributed massively-parallel clusters. We present an experimental assessment showing how our proposal allows to implement complicated interactions with a reduced complexity, while delivering a non-negligible performance increase

Music phrasing : the importance of teaching music phrasing to the pupils studying music instruments

The objective was to familiarize the author during the thesis process in more depth with the importance of teaching music phrasing to the students studying music instruments. As a method of the thesis has been used the familiarization oneself with the source material on the subject and to apply the information to the author's own teaching experiences in the flute playing. The result of the thesis was the author's increased knowledge of music phrasing and its teaching, from which his future flute students will also benefit, since when the level of knowledge increases, the level of teaching increases as well.The video recording of Ian Clarke's composition "Hypnosis" made in Georgia. The flute playing and the sound recording of the video made by Andrei Borshchev, piano player- Julia Siverskay