Simulation software: not the same yesterday, today or forever

M Pidd and A Carvalho

Journal of Simulation, 2006, vol. 1, issue 1, 7-20

Abstract: It is probably true, at least in part, that each generation assumes that the way it operates is the only way to go about things. It is easy to forget that different approaches were used in the past and hard to imagine what other approaches might be used in the future. We consider the symbiotic relationship between general developments in computing, especially in software and parallel developments in discrete event simulation. This shows that approaches other than today's excellent simulation packages were used in the past, albeit with difficulty, to conduct useful simulations. Given that few current simulation packages make much use of recent developments in computer software, particularly in component-based developments, we consider how simulation software might develop if it utilized these developments. We present a brief description of DotNetSim, a prototype component-based discrete event simulation package to illustrate our argument.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jos.4250004

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