WES: Agent-based user interaction simulation on real infrastructure

J Ahlgren, ME Berezin, K Bojarczuk… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] The DARPA SocialSim Challenge: Massive Multi-Agent Simulations of the Github Ecosystem.

J Blythe, E Ferrara, D Huang, K Lerman, G Muric… - AAMAS, 2019 - aamas.csc.liv.ac.uk
The DARPA SocialSim challenge problem measured participant's ability, given 30 months of
meta-data on user activity on GitHub, to predict the next months' activity as measured by a …

Measurement challenges for cyber cyber digital twins: Experiences from the deployment of Facebook's ww simulation system

K Bojarczuk, N Gucevska, S Lucas, I Dvortsova… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
A cyber cyber digital twin is a deployed software model that executes in tandem with the
system it simulates, contributing to, and drawing from, the system's behaviour. This paper …

Enhancing Testing at Meta with Rich-State Simulated Populations

N Alshahwan, A Blasi, K Bojarczuk… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper reports the results of the deployment of Rich-State Simulated Populations at Meta
for both automated and manual testing. We use simulated users (aka test users) to mimic …

Sim4edu. com—web-based simulation for education

G Wagner - 2017 Winter simulation conference (WSC), 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sim4edu. com project website supports web-based simulation with open source
technologies for open science and education. It provides both simulation technologies and a …

Massive multi-agent data-driven simulations of the github ecosystem

J Blythe, J Bollenbacher, D Huang, PM Hui… - Advances in Practical …, 2019 - Springer
Simulating and predicting planetary-scale techno-social systems poses heavy
computational and modeling challenges. The DARPA SocialSim program set the challenge …

" It Was More Than Just the Game, It Was the Community": Social Affordances in Online Games

N Crenshaw, B Nardi - 2016 49th Hawaii International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze social affordances from World of Warcraft (WoW), a massively multiplayer online
role-playing game (MMO). These affordances contributed to community development and …

The anatomy of a large-scale experimentation platform

S Gupta, L Ulanova, S Bhardwaj… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online controlled experiments (eg, A/B tests) are an integral part of successful data-driven
companies. At Microsoft, supporting experimentation poses a unique challenge due to the …

Discrete-event simulation on the world wide web using Java

AH Buss, KA Stork - Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter …, 1996 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces Simkit, a small set of Java classes for creating discrete event
simulation models. Simkit may be used to either implement stand-alone models or Web …

Simulation-driven automated end-to-end test and oracle inference

S Tuli, K Bojarczuk, N Gucevska… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This is the first work to report on inferential testing at scale in industry. Specifically, it reports
the experience of automated testing of integrity systems at Meta. We built an internal tool …