{"title":"A literature survey on distributed discrete event simulation","authors":"F. Kaudel","doi":"10.1145/29497.29499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/29497.29499","url":null,"abstract":"Much literature over the past decade has examined using multiprocessors to increase the speed and lower the cost of discrete event simulation. Three orthogonal approaches have been suggested, using simulation parallelism in support functions, in model functions and on the application level. This overview brings together these past approaches into a new framework wherein all three can be used simultaneously and suggests several promising research areas.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132510049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simulator for a reduced PDP-11/34","authors":"G. Ohlendorf, M. Willmann","doi":"10.1145/29497.29498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/29497.29498","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a simulating system for a reduced version of the PDP-11/34 running under control of a debugger is introduced and some applications are shown.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122033267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and simulation of medium-access-protocols in local area networks","authors":"I. Katz","doi":"10.1145/25046.25047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/25046.25047","url":null,"abstract":"Local Area Networks are becoming the most common way of connecting a series of workstations to allow them to communicate with each other and share common resources. It is therefore becoming more and more important for network designers and installers to evaluate the ability of local area networks that use different communication protocols to handle the desired message loads. An issue in LAN performance is related to the properties of the medium access protocol, i.e., its throughput-delay characteristics. By medium access protocol we refer to the MAC (Medium Access Control) sublayer as defined by the IEEE-802 and the ISOOSI protocols. This paper focuses on two general classes of protocols: the first is known as Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) and the second is known as Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) or Bit-Mapped protocol. Two variations of each class are examined, and comparisons are made between the classes and the variants of each class.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123840137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation as a means of reducing simulation costs","authors":"J. Comfort","doi":"10.1145/16440.16442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/16440.16442","url":null,"abstract":"The high cost of simulation has been well documented, and is a significant problem in many applications. In this paper, several existing methods for cost control and reduction are mentioned, and a modest proposal for drastically reducing simulation cost is presented.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126783075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model reliability and software quality assurance in simulation of nuclear fuel waste management systems","authors":"T. Ören, M. S. Elzas, G. Sheng","doi":"10.1145/1102581.1102582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102581.1102582","url":null,"abstract":"As is the case with all scientific simulation studies, computerized simulation of nuclear fuel waste management systems can introduce and hide various types of errors. Frameworks to clarify issues of model reliability and software quality assurance are offered. Potential problems with reference to the main areas of concern for reliability and quality are discussed; e.g. experimental issues, decomposition, scope, fidelity, verification, requirements, testing, correctness, robustness are treated with reference to the experience gained in the past. A list comprising over 80 most common computerization errors is provided. Software tools and techniques used to detect and to correct computerization errors are discussed.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115477736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choosing a language for an MBA system modeling and simulation course","authors":"N. Archer","doi":"10.1145/1102578.1102579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102578.1102579","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation languages develop and evolve over time, and the courses in which modeling and simulation are taught must also evolve to keep pace. In the McMaster University MBA program, a study was undertaken in order to select a new simulation language for a system modeling and simulation course in which GPSS had previously been used, in order to demonstrate a broader possible selection of possible application areas for simulation. The language which was selected was SLAM II, and this selection was confirmed by monitoring the reactions and perceptions of the students to both the old and new languages, which were taught concurrently in two separate sections.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123757582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation models and some applications to maintenance and repair systems","authors":"Z. Czajkiewicz, N. Reddy","doi":"10.1145/1102958.1102962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102958.1102962","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation is one of the powerful techniques to study maintenance and repair phenomena. Perhaps the most compelling reason for the adoption of simulation has been the need to realistically model a complex environment. Simulation is quite sophisticated in that it enables various groups, activities, and resource mixes to be modelled. Further failure rates of systems and subsystems, repair times and equipment movement times can all be determined randomly based on input probability distributions. Simulation has a distinct advantage to conduct various trade-off studies like trade-offs between manpower requirements and component reliability and their effect on selection from various means.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123229433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Process-oriented simulation languages","authors":"T. Saydam","doi":"10.1145/1102958.1102959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102958.1102959","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a brief general discussion of simulation languages followed by a more detailed description of some the important important features of process-oriented languages. Event oriented languages and some of their properties are briefly covered. Essential elements of process-oriented languages are described and desired features are elaborated. A need for a powerful, complex, yet easy to use process-oriented simulation language is emphasized.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116776474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing simulated systems","authors":"G. Pflug","doi":"10.1145/1102955.1102956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102955.1102956","url":null,"abstract":"A major part of all simulation models contains a number of decision variables. For such models the problem of optimal decision arises in a natural way. The combination of simulation and optimization for probabilistic models with continuous decision variables is discussed in this paper. Several important techniques for solving the combined problem are presented. In particular the stochastic quasigradient method which is a well known technique in stochastic optimization may also successfully applied for simulation-optimization problems.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"169 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114109730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The quality of a scientific simulation","authors":"G. R. Sherman","doi":"10.1145/1102872.1102874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102872.1102874","url":null,"abstract":"Demonstrable high quality of a simulation of the disposal of nuclear fuel waste is crucial for the assessment of the disposal concept. The elements of quality are described, as pertaining to models of the controlling processes, data interpreted from field and laboratory measurements, and computer software representing the models.Procedures for quality assurance and features that enhance quality are discussed. Two major factors are identified: comparison and critical review. Simulation data and results can be compared with field and laboratory observations, with alternate solutions, or with expert judgment. Critical review by scientists and other interested parties, facilitated by thorough documentation, can ensure that the appropriate processes are being accurately modeled.","PeriodicalId":138785,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131603294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}