Dependencies, Demons, and Graphical Interfaces in the Ross Language
Abstract
This Note investigates the utility of knowledge-based artificial intelligence techniques to help solve deficiencies that exist in large scale military simulations. It explicity identifies the source of many inconsistency problems in object oriented simulations, presents a general methodology for solving three classes of inconsistencies, offers solutions implemented as extensions to the Ross object-oriented simulation language, and supplies guidelines to aid a simulation language, and supplies guidelines to aid a simulation developer in the use of these new capabilities. It an object oriented simulation system, the program entities and processes correspond closely to those objects and activities being simulated. Nevertheless, many additional computational tasks must be programmed that have no analogy in the modeled world. The goals of this Note are to identify and categorize some of these 'artifactual' activities and describe automatic programming aids that reduce the programmer's burden of handling artifactual processes. Keywords: Programming languages, Simulation languages, Simulation, Mathematical models.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA194385
Entities
People
- Barbara Gates
- Jeff Rothenberg
- Stephanie Cammarata
Organizations
- RAND Corporation