An Extensible Visual Environment for Construction and Analysis of Hierarchically-Structured Models of Resource Contention Systems

Kurtiss J. Gordon, Robert F. Gordon, James F. Kurose and Edward A. MacNair
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Kurtiss J. Gordon: University Computing Services, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Robert F. Gordon: IBM Research Division, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
James F. Kurose: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Edward A. MacNair: IBM Research Division, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

Management Science, 1991, vol. 37, issue 6, 714-732

Abstract: The development of models for evaluating the performance of resource contention systems, such as manufacturing systems, computer systems, and communication networks, is often a difficult and complex task. This modeling effort can be dramatically reduced by the use of appropriate software tools. The Research Queueing Package Modeling Environment (RESQME) provides a graphical environment for constructing, solving, and analyzing the results of extended queueing network models of resource contention systems. It supports a rich underlying modeling paradigm previously developed in the Research Queueing Package (RESQ) and provides a single integrated graphical interface throughout all tasks of the modeling lifecycle. In this paper we present a brief overview of RESQME and then focus on two of its most important features: the construction and analysis of hierarchically-structured models and the ability to extend and customize the RESQME environment for domain-specific modeling via the use of user-defined modeling elements. A manufacturing model is developed in order to illustrate these capabilities.

Keywords: simulation-programming languages; simulation-software; performance modeling tools; performance modeling methodology; visual programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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