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Inside discrete-event simulation software: how it works and why it matters

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Thomas J. Schriber,

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WSC '16: Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference

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This paper provides simulation practitioners and consumers with a grounding in how discrete-event simulation software works. Topics include discrete-event systems; entities, resources, control elements and operations; simulation runs; entity states; entity lists; and their management. The implementations of these generic ideas in AutoMod, SLX, ExtendSim, and Simio are described. The paper concludes with several examples of "why it matters" for modelers to know how their simulation software works, including discussion of AutoMod, SLX, ExtendSim, Simio, Arena, ProModel, and GPSS/H.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3106388.3106394

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WSC '16: Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference

December 2016

3974 pages

ISBN:9781509044849

General Chair:
Todd Huschka
Mayo Clinic
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Program Chair:
Stephen E. Chick
INSEAD

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AnyLogic: The AnyLogic Company
Palgrave: Palgrave Macmillan
FlexSim: FlexSim Software Products, Inc.
ASA: American Statistical Association
IEEE/SMC: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Simio: Simio LLC
ODU: Old Dominion University
ASIM: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation
ExtendSim: ExtendSim
NIST: National Institute of Standards & Technology
Amazon Simulations: Amazon Simulations

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Collins SGonda NDumaliang LLeathrum JMielke RJafer SPadilla JFrydenlund E(2017)Visualization of event execution in a discrete event systemProceedings of the 50th Annual Simulation Symposium10.5555/3106388.3106394(1-12)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2017
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