An Object-Oriented World-View for Intelligent, Discrete, Next-Event Simulation

James R. Burns and J. Darrell Morgeson
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James R. Burns: College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 4320, Lubbock, Texas 79409
J. Darrell Morgeson: Group A-5, Mail Stop F602, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Management Science, 1988, vol. 34, issue 12, 1425-1440

Abstract: Concepts from software engineering and knowledge engineering are incorporated into discrete, next-event simulation. The existing, conventional world-view utilized within discrete simulation is reviewed. A construct is presented that makes existing discrete simulation world-views more robust for problems involving endogenous decision-making. The use of knowledge bases and inference engines as mechanisms for modeling such decision making is presented. The result is a simulation world view that is able to simulate systems involving intelligent decision-making entities (actors) whose decisions strongly impact the state of the system.

Keywords: simulation; object-oriented programming; knowledge-based systems; actor paradigms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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