Computer simulation—discussion of the technique and comparison of languages
Communications of the ACM
SIMDABS: A database system tailored for use in simulation studies
WSC '78 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
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It is now 1976, more than 20 years since computer simulation was first recognized as an area which had a need for special purpose computer languages and languages features. Many of the signs of maturity are present in the field: Two annual simulation conferences, courses in most major universities, and a number of standard textbooks and bibliographies[l,6,4]. In addition, there have been several surveys of simulation languages, e.g., [7] and we have no wish to repeat such a survey here. Rather, we attempt to describe a set of features that one should be able to “expect” any simulation language to have, and to discuss a set of features which are still needed - especially in the growing worlds of interactive computing and computer graphics and data bases.