J.B. van den Bosch
Generieke modulen voor simulatie in C++
Masters thesis,
Report 94.3.LT.4426, Transport Engineering and Logistics.
To investigate the behaviour of large-scale logistical systems it is often
necessary to use discrete simulation. Several programming languages for
programming a simulation model are developed, e.g. Prosim.
Besides that for some general programming languages an addition has been made
to support the basic concepts of discrete simulation. The disadvantage of
such an additional simulation module is that it is dependent on the platform
and the compiler because it is using assembler language.
This study investigates the possibility and applicability of general simulation
tools, in the programming language C++. No assembier has been applied to avoid
the disadvantage of dependency on the platform and computer. For this purpose
discrete simulation was analysed in a function model to make clear which
generic tools could be made. Hereafter these tools were implemented. The tools
support the basic concepts for simulation as event-scheduling, process
description, interruption and continuation of processes, conditional activation
of processes, etcetera.
The tools are checked on use by aplying them on a queueing process. It turned
out that they were satisfactory: In spite of some rules in the form of the
implementation of the processes, there are no restrictions on discrete
simulation models in the use of this tools.
lt is recommendabie to expand this simulation module with other tools,
such as a tool for dataprocessing, a tool for statistical data prodessing, etc.
Besides that a general user interface could be made.
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