The simulation of time sharing systems
Communications of the ACM
SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language
Communications of the ACM
ECSS - an Extendable Computer System Simulator
Proceedings of the third conference on Applications of simulation
An approach to the total design of instructional systems by simulation
An approach to the total design of instructional systems by simulation
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The problem of designing integrated hardware, software, and application systems using simulation as the main design tool is investigated. A proposed design methodology incorporating an iterative loop is then employed to the design of a system for Computer Assisted Instruction. Models of the hardware, the operating system, and the application system are developed, integrated, and simulated to generate a hardware configuration for a 20-terminal system. The performance of this system under operating conditions is then monitored while varying the number of active terminals, the load (requests from terminals), the student think time, and the system overhead. Analysis of the performance measures shows that the student think time is a dominant parameter as it effectively determines the system workload due to the small capacity of the system modeled.