Object oriented toolkits for simulation program generators

Ülgen, Onur M.; Thomasma, Timothy; Mao, Youyi

doi:10.1145/76738.76815

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“…Similarly, SmartSim (Thomasma and Ulgen 1988) and its successor, SmarterSim (Ulgen & Mao, 1989), are iconbased discrete event SPGs. Like XCell+, they were developed for manufacturing simulation.…”

Section: Graphical Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

A Portable Process-Oriented Compiler For Event Driven Simulation

Harrington

Fishwick

1993

SIMULATION

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Modern Simulation Program Generators (SPGs) must address four key issues: portability, user interface, consistency and extensibility. Portable SPGs allow the user to edit the model outside of the SPG giving the user the flexibility to add features not supported by the SPG. An SPG's user interface should mimic the user's perception of the system to be modelled. Often the user visualizes the model as a network diagram. The user interface and the SPG's consistency determine ease-of-use. SPGs should be developed under a standard environment to provide consistency between programs. They should be modular, to allow the code generator to be modified as new simulation tools are developed. Xsimcode addresses each of these issues. It is a portable SPG, providing flexibitity for experienced modelers. It uses a graphical, direct manipulation interface to represent the simulation model. A noun-verb dialogue limits the user's choices once an object is selected. As an X-Windows program, Xsimcode's interface is consistent with many other X-Windows programs. Xsimcode's user interface module and code generation module are separated by a data structure, allowing Xsimcode to be extended to support other simulation languages or ported to other windowing environments.

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Section: Graphical Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

A Portable Process-Oriented Compiler For Event Driven Simulation

Harrington

Fishwick

1993

SIMULATION

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“…Simulation tools which utilize an object-oriented structure have been proposed to address the control issues introduced above (Beaumariage et aL 1990) (Glassey and Adiga 1990) (Ulgen et aL 1989). These papers provide the best review of three concentrated efforts toward the development of object-oriented simulation tools which enhance reusability.…”

Section: Control Representation and Object-oriented Simulationmentioning

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The separation and explicit declaration of model control structures in support of object-oriented simulation

Ogle¹,

Beaumariage²,

Roberts³

1991 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings.

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This paper introduces concepts for the separation of model logic control structures from simulation models in support of the object-oriented simulation of manufacturing systems. A three part separation of simulation model structures is proposed to support and enhance object-oriented simulation of manufacturing systems. The three-part structural separation is made to enhance flexibility, extensibility, modularity, reusability, and understandability. The process of partitioning a simulation model into these three parts utilizes systems modeling and objectoriented modeling principles.These modeling principles enable definition of the individual modules which represent the natural partitioned structure and dynamics which should be present in an objectoriented simulation modeL 1 INTRODUCllON

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