Simulation category languages-a DDP example

  • Authors:

  • P. Nick Lawrence

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • WSC '77 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

General simulation languages can be used to express any simulation situation. Often, however, the expressions are bulky and cumbersome because of the host language's need for generality. High-level languages for specific situations or problem areas, called “Category Languages”, can greatly improve users' access to simulation computing power and can quite easily and justifiably be implemented as “front-end” pre-processors to ordinary general simulation languages. In this paper, definitions and motivations for Category Language Methodology are presented, with a discussion of applications areas, implementation methods, and an example of the Category Language Methodology drawn from Distributed Data Processing.