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Using Ada for discrete event simulation
Author(s) -
Bruno Giorgio
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380140705
Subject(s) - structuring , correctness , computer science , discrete event simulation , process (computing) , class (philosophy) , scheduling (production processes) , context (archaeology) , programming language , software engineering , simulation , engineering , artificial intelligence , paleontology , operations management , finance , economics , biology
The process interaction approach is proposed for developing a discrete simulation environment in Ada. The introduction of simulation facilities in Ada not only concerns the classical aspect of model building, but allows a new class of problems to be tackled, that is the testing of correctness of programs intended for real‐time applications. In this paper attention is focused on the presentation of the process scheduling in the simulation context and on the definition of standard forms of interactions among processes. Simulation facilities are organized by making use of Ada's structuring concepts.