CSIM: a C-based process-oriented simulation language

ABSTRACT

CSIM is a process-oriented simulation language which is implemented as a superset of the C programming language. Using CSIM, a simulation programmer is able to quickly construct concise models of systems and then to execute these models in an efficient manner. In addition to supporting process-oriented simulation, CSIM as a number of additional features dealing with modeling system resources, message passing, data collection and debugging which ease the task of building simulation models.

REFERENCES

• 1: DaM, O.J. and K. Nygaard (1967), Simula: A Language for Programming and Description of Discrete Event Systems, Fifth Edition, Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo.
• 2: W. R Franta, The process view of simulation (Operating and programming systems series), North-Holland, 1977
• 3: Gordon, G. (1978), System Simulation (2nd Edition}, Prentice-HM1, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
• 4: B. W. Kernighan , D. M. Ritchie, The C programming language, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1978
• 5: Kiviat, P.J., Vilanueva, R. and H.M. Markovitz (1975), Sirescript 11.5 Programming Language, CA.CI Inc., Los Angeles.
• 6: Averill M. Law , W. David Kelton, Simulation Modeling and Analysis, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1997
• 7: Myron H. MacDougall , J. Stuart McAlpine, Computer system simulation with ASPOL, Proceedings of the 1st symposium on Simulation of computer systems, p.92-103, June 19-20, 1973, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
• 8: Myron H. MacDougall, Simulating the NASA Mass Data Storage Facility, Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Simulation of computer systems, p.33-43, June 04-06, 1974, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
• 9: M. H. MacDougall, Process and event control in ASPOL, Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Simulation of computer systems, p.39-51, August 12-14, 1975, Boulder, Colorado, United States
• 10: MacDougal}, M.H. (1976), System Leve| Simulation, Digital System Design Automation: Languages, Simulation and Data Base, (M.A. Breuer, Editor), Computer Science Press, Inc., Rockville, MD, pp. 1-115.
• 11: Richard E. Nance, The time and state relationships in simulation modeling, Communications of the ACM, v.24 n.4, p.173-179, April 1981 [doi>10.1145/358598.358601]
• 12: Prit,~ker, A.A.B, (1974), The GASP-IV Simulation Language, .John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.
• 13: Pritsker, A.A.B. and C.D. Pegden (1979), Introduction to Simulation and SLAM, Halste,'td Press, New York.
• 14: Tuncay Saydam, Process-oriented simulation languages, ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest, v.16 n.2, p.8-13, April 1985 [doi>10.1145/1102958.1102959]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: C

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Performance, Theory