{"title":"A simulation model for distributed real-time database systems","authors":"Ö. Ulusoy, G. Belford","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227558","url":null,"abstract":"Each transaction in a real-time database system is associated with a timing constraint in the form of a deadline. Efficient transaction scheduling algorithms are required to minimize the number of missed transaction deadlines. In this paper, a performance evaluation model is provided to enable distributed real-time database system designers to analyze transaction scheduling algorithms. The model is developed progressing from a simple mathematical analysis to complicated simulations. The paper also provides an example simulation experiment implemented using the model presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131761468","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 effect of strict firing and real characteristics of multiprocessors on performance-a simulation approach","authors":"V. Ivanov, H.S. Soliman","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227564","url":null,"abstract":"As the complexity of a computing system grows, an analytical model for performance projection becomes more difficult to devise, and inherently contains more simplifying assumptions, which in turn affect the accuracy of the model. The authors' simulation approach is based on a behavioral model for parallel programs. It is behavioral because it assumes the knowledge of the parallel program run-time behavior. A simulator maps (or 'executes') behavioral programs onto a multiprocessor system and produces a set of statistics used in performance evaluation. Preliminary experiments studied the effect of the task firing strategy on program performance. Systems with different characteristics have been investigated.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132111462","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":"Effect of sinusoidal function on backpropagation learning","authors":"B. Karimi, K. Ashenayi, T. Baradaran-Seyed","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227582","url":null,"abstract":"The backpropagation (BP) method is modified by replacing the sigmoid function by a sinusoidal function. The leaving law is also modified. The modified procedure shows great improvement over the original BP in terms of the number of neurons and the learning time.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131478820","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":"ANNIE: a simulated neural network for empirical studies and application prototyping","authors":"Wendy L. Huxhold, T. Henson, J. D. Bowman","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227583","url":null,"abstract":"Provides background information on the theory and applications of neural networks, and define the role of a simulated neural network package ANNIE (Artificial Neural Network Integrated Environment) which the authors developed in order to support their theoretical studies with empirical investigations and to prototype applications. Then they discuss the development of ANNIE, including a description of the user environment and the validation procedure. Finally, they present results of their application prototyping activities in the areas of communication system signal detection and robot manipulator control.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131705809","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":"Using split event sets to form and schedule event combinations in discrete event simulation","authors":"N. Manjikian, W. Loucks","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227563","url":null,"abstract":"Examines the operational characteristics of event set implementations in the presence of a large number of scheduled events. The authors examine a technique to reduce the number of items (i.e., events) to be scheduled by combining all the events to be processed by the same part of the simulation (referred to as a logical process) at the same simulation time. While fewer items need to be scheduled as a result of the formation of these event combinations in existing unified event set implementations, the scheduling must be done by both event time and the identity of the logical process which is to process the event. To address the complexity of this two-component priority, the authors introduce and examine several split event set implementations as schedulers. Empirical performance comparisons between unified and split implementations using closed queuing network and other simulations demonstrate the advantage of split implementations for large event sets.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124475131","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 Automatic Element Routine Generator: an automatic programming tool for functional simulator design","authors":"Cheng-I Chuang, S. Szygenda, J. D. Baker","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227574","url":null,"abstract":"The concept presented in this paper is that of a circuit simulator with the ability to generate software for element routines automatically at the time of circuit definition, and then execute the programs at the time of simulation. The approach is based on a paradigm of sequential transformations using domain-specific knowledge of circuit design. A prototype system was developed to accomplish these goals and the results are reported in this paper.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116625414","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":"SIMA: an environment for parallel discrete-event simulation","authors":"H. Rajaei","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227567","url":null,"abstract":"Parallelism can significantly reduce the execution time of a simulation program. However, language support is needed to handle the complexities involved so that the underlying parallel mechanisms become transparent to the users. This paper presents a simulation environment called SIMA which addresses such issues. SIMA is an experimental environment for parallel discrete-event simulation in which a simulation model can be specified by the provided primitives and be executed on a shared memory multiprocessor. The parallel mechanisms of SIMA are totally transparent to users. This property makes usage of SIMA very convenient. Users can have the benefit of faster execution on a parallel computer without requiring knowledge about parallel processing. The base language is C and the interfaces are library routines and input arguments. The interfaces facilitate both parallel and sequential simulation. Several experiments indicate that SIMA has a satisfactory performance. Speedups of over 10 for many cases have been achieved using 15 processors.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132564429","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":"Annotated bibliography of the Proceedings of the Annual Simulation Symposium (1968-91)","authors":"R. Gagliano, Martin D. Fraser","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227555","url":null,"abstract":"An annotated bibliography is being developed for the 435 papers that have been published in the Proceedings of the Annual Simulation Symposium since 1968. Using the Paradox relational database system, this catalog of the 24 volumes of papers contains descriptions and data of topical and indexical value. These papers track the evolution of the simulation discipline through changes in its subject matter; e.g., issues of simulation techniques, technology, languages, and applications, etc. This article presents a very brief analysis of some of the more notable trends and an appendix listing the titles of the papers alphabetized by author with an index of the symposium number followed by paper number.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127109536","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 symbolic simulation mechanism for well-formed coloured Petri nets","authors":"G. Chiola, G. Franceschinis, R. Gaeta","doi":"10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMSYM.1992.227562","url":null,"abstract":"Coloured Petri nets are well suited to the modelling of realistic distributed systems. Such models are however usually too large and complex to analyze and simulate using standard techniques. Originally the model symmetries inherent to the colour definitions of stochastic well-formed nets were exploited for Markovian analysis. The authors propose a similar technique to substantially reduce the average length of the event list in case of large and symmetric models. Examples of real simulation models of multiprocessor system architectures show that, after a given threshold, the symbolic simulation time may be virtually independent of the actual size of the system to be modelled, thus making the simulation of systems with thousand processors as inexpensive as the simulation of systems with only few processors.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":215380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 25th Annual Simulation Symposium","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121396913","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}