Paper Info
Title
What value is Microsoft's .Net to discrete event simulations?
Abstract
Developers of simulation software have responded to the increasing demand for customised solutions by adding new features and tools to their simulation packages. This has led to monolithic applications with functionalities constantly extended by addition of templates, add-ons, etc in a generalising-customising-generalising development cycle. Though successful so far, this approach may be approaching its limit. An alternative approach is to compose simulation packages from prefabricated components that users may select, modify and assemble to acquire functionality to suit each model. This approach requires component-based paradigms and integration mechanisms. We investigate the value of .Net integration philosophy for development of discrete event simulation models. The DotNetSim prototype is used to investigate how software components developed within different packages can be linked into a single simulation application deployed as web services. DotNetSim consists of a graphical modelling environment and a base simulation engine.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1162708.1163147
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
simulation package,integration philosophy,dotnetsim prototype,simulation software,discrete event simulation model,alternative approach,single simulation application,base simulation engine,integration mechanism,generalising-customising-generalising development cycle,discrete event simulation
Simulation software,Computer science,Simulation,Simulation language,Component-based software engineering,Template,Web service,Discrete event simulation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-9519-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adelaide Carvalho100.34
Michael Pidd253641.15