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Design of object-oriented simulations in C++

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Jeffrey A. Joines,

Stephen D. RobertsAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '95: Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation

Pages 82 - 89

https://doi.org/10.1145/224401.224428

Published: 01 December 1995 Publication History

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A set of object classes have been written in C++ which can be used to create simulation models and simulation packages. The simulations built with these classes possess the benefits of an object-oriented design, including the use of inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, run-time binding, and parameterized typing. These concepts are illustrated by creating a network queuing simulation language which has several notable features not available in other similar languages. Object-oriented simulations provide full accessibility to the base language, faster executions, portable models and executables, a multi-vendor implementation language, and a growing variety of complementary development tools.

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Withers DFishwick PKang KJoines JBarton R(2000)Some fundamental issues in model buildingProceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation10.5555/510378.510446(432-439)Online publication date: 10-Dec-2000
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Joines JRoberts S(1997)An introduction to object-oriented simulation in C++Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation10.1145/268437.268453(78-85)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1997
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Index Terms

Design of object-oriented simulations in C++
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
      1. Simulation languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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WSC '95: Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation

December 1995

1493 pages

ISBN:0780330188

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William R. Lilegdon
Pritsker Corp., West Lafayette, IN
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David Goldsman
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

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Park JMoraga RRabelo LDawson JMarin MSepulveda J(2005)Addressing complexity using distributed simulationProceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation10.5555/1162708.1163022(1804-1812)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2005
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Withers DFishwick PKang KJoines JBarton R(2000)Some fundamental issues in model buildingProceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation10.5555/510378.510446(432-439)Online publication date: 10-Dec-2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/510378.510446
Joines JRoberts S(1997)An introduction to object-oriented simulation in C++Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation10.1145/268437.268453(78-85)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1997
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/268437.268453
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Joines JRoberts S(1996)Design of object-oriented simulations in C++Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation10.1145/256562.256574(65-72)Online publication date: 8-Nov-1996
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