Silk and Taylor ED: open-source SML and silk for Java-based, object-oriented simulation

  • Authors:
  • Richard A. Kilgore

  • Affiliations:
  • SML Consortium and ThreadTec, Inc., Chesterfield, MO

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Silk® and SML are software libraries of Java, C++, C# and VB.Net classes that support object-oriented, discrete-event simulation. SML™ is a new open-source or "free" software library of simulation classes that enable multi-language development of complex, yet manageable simulations through the construction of usable and reusable simulation objects. These objects are usable because they express the behavior of individual entity-threads from the system object perspective using familiar process-oriented modeling within an object-oriented design supported by a general purpose programming language. These objects are reusable because they can be easily archived, edited and assembled using professional development environments that support multi-language, cross-platform execution and a common component architecture. This introduction supports the tutorial session that describes the fundamentals of designing and creating an SML or Silk model.