VMAC: a GUI-based Web-based simulation environment

Web-based simulation was introduced for conducting simulation experiments on the Internet and the Web. Due to the use of the Java language, Web-based simulation can have such characteristics as reusability, portability and the capability of execution on the Web. Most of the existing Web-based simulation tools have focused mainly on the development of runtime simulation libraries and mechanisms on the Web. Thus, the model development work in such Web-based simulation tools still requires hand-written coding of model developers. This paper presents a visual model development environment for Web-based simulation. The proposed environment provides a framework for model development and animation. To show the effectiveness of the proposed environment we perform simulation experiments for transaction routing algorithms in a distributed transaction processing system.