Design of an efficient frame-based modeling and simulation tool

Abstract

To accurately trace the dynamic behavior of the systems to be developed, and to effectively proceed with the systems' performance measures prior to their implementation, are getting harder as advanced technology is employed in the system design process. This situation drives the functional progress in modern modeling and simulation supporting environment. Our study to the trend is concentrated on promoting the efficiency of modeling and simulating diverse application systems. The achievement in the research is the establishment of a frame-based modeling and simulation tool termed FRAMS. The feature deserved by FRAMS is not just high reuse of model resource but great simulation time saving by modeling an application system with a hierarchical, multilink data structure. Currently, FRAMS has been implemented more specific to performance measures on computer systems, however, the design spirit of FRAMS is for general purposes in extensive application areas.<>