A comparison of simulation event list algorithms
Communications of the ACM
Improved event-scanning mechanisms for discrete event simulation
Communications of the ACM
Computer simulation—discussion of the technique and comparison of languages
Communications of the ACM
Simulation Using GPSS
Computer Simulation Applications: Discrete-Event Simulation for Synthesis and Analysis of Complex Systems
System Simulation
Application of GPSS Five to Discrete System Simulation
Application of GPSS Five to Discrete System Simulation
The GPSS/360 random number generator
Proceedings of the second conference on Applications of simulations
An interactive debugging facility for GPSS
WSC '77 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
On the precision of probabalistic process generators in GPSS
WSC '77 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
An empirical comparison of priority-queue and event-set implementations
Communications of the ACM
A comparative study of parallel and sequential priority queue algorithms
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
ANSS '85 Proceedings of the 18th annual symposium on Simulation
Perspectives on simulation using GPSS
WSC '88 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation
Implementations of time (panel)
WSC '86 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Winter simulation
Perspectives on simulation using GPSS (tutorial session)
WSC' 90 Proceedings of the 22nd conference on Winter simulation
Panel: GPSS 40th anniversary: GPSS turns 40: selected perspectives
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
A tutorial view of simulation model development
WSC '83 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
A history of discrete event simulation programming languages
History of programming languages---II
A tutorial view of simulation model development
ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
Parallel discrete event simulation with Erlang
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Functional high-performance computing
GPSS 50 years old, but still young
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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The General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) is a programming system designed for the simulation of discrete systems. These are systems that can be modeled as a series of state changes that occur instantaneously, usually over a period of time. Complexities in their analysis arise because there are many elements in the system, and there is competition for limited system resources. The simulation technique uses numerical computation methods to follow the system elements through their changes of state, and predicts properties of the system from measurements on the model. GPSS came into existence rapidly, with virtually no planning, and surprisingly little effort. It came rapidly because it filled an urgent need that left little time for exploring alternatives. The lack of planning came from a happy coincidence of a solution meeting its problem at the right time. The economy of effort was based on a background of experience in the type of application for which the language was designed, both on the part of the designer and the early users.