Paper Info
Title
Design guidelines for simulation building blocks
Abstract
Component based or building block based simulation model development is regularly mentioned as an interesting new development and a potential field of research. Most of the commercial simulation environments offer the users of their software functions to group model constructs and upgrade these to advanced model constructs that the users can use in future simulation studies. Unfortunately, the created model constructs are rarely reused and often stop being used after the first simulation study. In this paper we describe a list of guidelines to consider in the design of building blocks to enhance the reusability and the flexibility of the simulation building block to be used in multiple simulation studies, also by model developers who have not been involved in the design of the building blocks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WSC.2008.4736158
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital simulation,software reusability,building block based simulation model,commercial simulation environments,component based simulation model,flexibility,multiple simulation studies,reusability,simulation building blocks
Systems engineering,Simulation,Computer science,Mean squared error,Upgrade,Software,Potential field,Reusability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-2708-6
10
0.73
References 
Authors
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Verbraeck148376.95
Edwin C. Valentin2312.67