From: Mika Naimark (mikanmrk@rol.ru)
Date: Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 16:31:21 GMT
I am now reading the papers on Social Simulation and agents, and SDML, but
it takes some space to explain the particular aspect I was inerested in:
It seems that existing operation systems and object-orietented languages are
implicitly modeling some social things -- although this far from the
programmers intentions, they are usually unaware of their doing so. This is
all being done intuitively, it just happened to be more convenient for human
programmers.
Words like "private property", "public property", "friend" were carried over
into OOP from social life not just by accident, I feel. Memory access rights
for OOP objects (and for whole different applications in a system) are
reminiscent of ownership rights in society -- which are the basic rights.
(Though in society they are far more sofisticated). There is also hierarchy
among OOP classes and objects, and among differnt parts of operating systems
and applications, and there is hierarchy among citizens and entities in
society. In some aspects the analogy may to be deeper then can be
anticipated at the first glance, I beleive.
Are there any papers touching this aspect, whithin MABS or in some other
fields? Are these available on the internet?
With respect,
Naimark M.
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