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

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Winter Simulation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation table of contents

Arlington, Virginia

TUTORIAL SESSION: Advanced tutorials table of contents

Pages: 158 - 168

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:0-7803-7309-X

Authors

Thomas J. Schriber	The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Daniel T. Brunner	Systemflow Simulations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN

Sponsors

INFORMS/CS : Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences/College on Simulation
IEEE/SMCS : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
NIST : National Institute of Standards and Technology
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SCS : The Society for Computer Simulation International
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
IIE : Institute of Industrial Engineers
IEEE/CS : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Computer Society
ASA : American Statistical Association

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IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA

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ABSTRACT

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 entity-list management. The implementation of these genetic ideas in AutoMod, SLX, and Extend is described. The paper concludes with several examples of "why it matters" for modelers to know how their simulation software works, including coverage of SIMAN (Arena), ProModel, and GPSS/H as well as the other three tools.

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	1	Vivek Bapat , Nancy Swets, Arena: the Arena product family: enterprise modeling solutions, Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation, December 10-13, 2000, Orlando, Florida
	2	Charles R. Harrell , Rochelle N. Price, Simulation modeling and optimization using ProModel, Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation, December 10-13, 2000, Orlando, Florida
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	Vineet R. Kamat , Julio C. Martinez, Construction engineering and project management I: variable-speed resource motion in animations of discrete-event process models, Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation, December 07-10, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana