A new modeling interface for simulators implementing the discrete event system specification

James Nutaro

doi:10.23919/SpringSim.2019.8732882

A new modeling interface for simulators implementing the discrete event system specification

James Nutaro

Computational Systems Engineering and Cy

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Abstract

The Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) offers a unique modeling interface that is often perplexing to modelers more familiar with other simulation paradigms. Recent advances in the use of super dense time for discrete event simulation offer an opportunity to recast the traditional interface into a form less confounding for new users. The new interface proposed here allows a natural progression from a message oriented approach to modeling to the familiar DEVS approach. The proposed approach retains the expressive power of the DEVS formalism, and in this sense represents a simple repackaging of the DEVS approach into a more intuitively appealing form.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Simulation Series
Publisher	The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
Edition	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510892521, 9781510892538, 9781510892545, 9781510892552, 9781510892569
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/SpringSim.2019.8732882
State	Published - 2019
Event	2019 Theory of Modeling and Simulation, TMS 2019, Part of the 2019 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, SpringSim 2019 - Tucson, United States Duration: Apr 29 2019 → May 2 2019

Publication series

Name	Simulation Series
Number	2
Volume	51
ISSN (Print)	0735-9276

Conference

Conference	2019 Theory of Modeling and Simulation, TMS 2019, Part of the 2019 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, SpringSim 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Tucson
Period	04/29/19 → 05/2/19

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of the manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

Keywords

Agent based model
DEVS
Discrete event simulation

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