Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce

Summary: BRACE extends MapReduce for large-scale behavioral simulations, using spatial locality and iterated spatial joins to cut communication and scale well. BRASIL, an agent-based language, compiles to a dataflow plan for parallelization and optimization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h72be387ba50bd3e2
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 6.780997e-05
Overall Rank: 4,142 | 72.17%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920962

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Authors

1. Guozhang Wang (Cornell University)
2. Marcos Vaz Salles (Cornell University)
3. Benjamin Sowell (Cornell University)
4. Xun Wang (Cornell University)
5. Tuan Cao (Cornell University)
6. Alan Demers (Cornell University)
7. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)
8. Walker White (Cornell University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb10,
        title = {{Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce}},
        author = {Wang, Guozhang and Salles, Marcos Vaz and Sowell, Benjamin and Wang, Xun and Cao, Tuan and Demers, Alan and Gehrke, Johannes and White, Walker},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920962},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920962},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,009	Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001253551
1,260	Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011293425
1,504	Asynchronous Large-Scale Graph Processing Made Easy	2013	CIDR	0.00010450172
2,573	Minimal MapReduce Algorithms	2013	SIGMOD	8.2782871e-05
4,840	An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory	2013	VLDB	6.3842693e-05
5,414	Data is Dead… Without What-If Models	2011	VLDB	6.1382893e-05
6,463	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.7741601e-05
12,463	Model-Data Ecosystems: Challenges, Tools, and Trends	2014	PODS	4.9769913e-05
12,560	ClouDiA: A Deployment Advisor for Public Clouds	2013	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,671	BRRL: A Recovery Library for Main-Memory Applications in the Cloud	2011	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
75	Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters	2007	SIGMOD	0.0003702496
93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034607573
1,000	Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012601156
2,244	Conceptual Partitioning: An Efficient Method for Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring	2005	SIGMOD	8.7637082e-05
4,810	On the Complexity of Nonrecursive XQuery and Functional Query Languages on Complex Values	2005	PODS	6.4049669e-05
8,047	Scaling Games to Epic Proportions	2007	SIGMOD	5.3989887e-05

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