CoSMoS Research

The CoSMoS project is based around case studies: examples of complex systems modelling and simulation around which we can develop techniques and design patterns that are useful for complex systems research in general.

Our main case studies have been real-world scientific problems from a variety of fields:

• Lymphocyte migration
• Granuloma formation
• Environment orientation
• Evolutionary swarm robotics
• Fungal mycelia
• Validity and assurance of simulation-based research

We've also done CoSMoS-style reimplementations of a number of classic complex systems from the literature that we thought were especially interesting or instructive:

• Occoids
• Ant-based annular sorting
• Chemical diffusion
• Artificial immune systems
• Scale free networks
• L-systems

Source code for most of these case studies (except where publication is pending) is available from the CoSMoS public repository.