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Abstract | ||
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This paper develops a message-based approach to discrete-event simulation. Although message-based simulators have the same expressive power as traditional discrete-event simulation lanuages, they provide a more natural environment for simulating distributed systems. In message-based simulations, a physical system is modeled by a set of message-communicating processes. The events in the system are modeled by message-communications. The paper proposes the entity construct to represent a message-communicating process operating in simulated time. A general wait until construct is used for process scheduling and message-communication. Based on these two notions, the paper proposes a language fragment comprising a small set of primitives. The language fragment can be implemented in any general-purpose, sequential programming language to construct a message-based simulator. We give an example of a message-based simulation language, called MAY, developed by implementing the language fragment in Fortran. MAY is in the public domain and is available on request. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1987 | 10.1109/TSE.1987.233203 | IEEE Trans. Software Eng. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
public domain,computational modeling,process scheduling,expressive power,natural environment,computer languages,programming language,distributed system,discrete event simulation,entity,message | Programming language,Public domain,Physical system,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Fortran,Real-time computing,Theoretical computer science,Simulation language,Small set,Expressive power,Discrete event simulation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
13 | 6 | 0098-5589 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
31 | 13.47 | 1 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajive Bagrodia | 1 | 2754 | 360.20 |
| K. Mani Chandy | 2 | 6606 | 1842.49 |
| Jayadev Misra | 3 | 3147 | 771.78 |