ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Computer aided simulation for computer system studies
WSC '78 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
Modeling paradigms for discrete event simulation
Operations Research Letters
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The principles of Computer Aided Design (CAD) have been incorporated in a simulation system to reduce the time and cost to produce simulations and expand the set of potential users to nonprogrammers. Computer Aided Programming for Simulation (CAPS) is an interactive program which queries the user and processes the responses to write a simulation program which, for models in its domain, is guaranteed to be logically correct and execute on the first run. CAPS is based upon the use of activity cycles for decomposition of the problem under study. Activity cycles, which appear to be a super set of Petrie Nets, are simply directed graphs. This technique permits one to do the classic barbership in 10 minutes at a cost of under $1.00 Activity cycles concepts will be described and the CAPS program demonstrated on an ALTOS 8000 micro computer. After the formal session is completed, a spontaneously submitted problem will be simulated on an interactive basis. CAPS writes Extended Control - Simulation Language (ECSL) which is a complete language with outstanding statistical characteristics and unique language features. Recent additions to the ECSL include *FIT, which tests distribution data against the 25 most commonly used statistical functions, and DISPLAY, which enables one to easily develop interactive simulations. CAPS/ECSL will be demonstrated on a personally owned micro computer, but will run on any system with ASCII Fortran IV, backing store, and sufficient care (16K words minimum).