The Art of Simulation: Some Tools and Techniques Developed at the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Abstract
In this paper two devices are used to narrow the communications gap between the end users of large-scale computer reliant models and the analysts who must find, review, or create such models. The first device involves the use of examples to describe the significant characteristics of three simulation techniques: event-store, ASTN, and hierarchical interrogation. The second device makes use of multiple equivalences. In this case, the conversion from one modeling technique to another (which shows the two to be equivalent) is prompted by a consideration of some salient features within the process to be simulated. The subliminal nature of these techniques and the causal implicative chains leading to their implementation is discussed from a user-oriented point of view. A section on decision tables and a decision table processor is included to assure a clear treatment of hierarchical decision table interrogation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA057395
Entities
People
- L. R. Gieszl
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University