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WES: Agent-based User Interaction Simulation on Real Infrastructure

Software Engineering 2020-04-14 v1 Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Social and Information Networks

Abstract

We introduce the Web-Enabled Simulation (WES) research agenda, and describe FACEBOOK's WW system. We describe the application of WW to reliability, integrity and privacy at FACEBOOK , where it is used to simulate social media interactions on an infrastructure consisting of hundreds of millions of lines of code. The WES agenda draws on research from many areas of study, including Search Based Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Programming Languages, Multi Agent Systems, Graph Theory, Game AI, and AI Assisted Game Play. We conclude with a set of open problems and research challenges to motivate wider investigation.

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@article{arxiv.2004.05363,
  title  = {WES: Agent-based User Interaction Simulation on Real Infrastructure},
  author = {John Ahlgren and Maria Eugenia Berezin and Kinga Bojarczuk and Elena Dulskyte and Inna Dvortsova and Johann George and Natalija Gucevska and Mark Harman and Ralf Lämmel and Erik Meijer and Silvia Sapora and Justin Spahr-Summers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05363},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Author order is alphabetical. Correspondence to Mark Harman (markharman@fb.com). This paper appears in GI 2020: 8th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement

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