Design considerations for M&S software

Dalle, Olivier and Ribault, Judicael and Himmelspach, Jan (2009) Design considerations for M&S software. In: Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2009), 13-16 Dec 2009, Austin, TX, USA. Proceedings, published by IEEE, Electronic ISSN: 1558-4305, pp. 944-955.

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2009.5429724

Abstract

The development of M&S products often seems to be driven by need: people start coding because they are interested in either a concrete simulation study, or they are interested in a (single) research subject of M&S methodology. We claim that discussing, designing, developing, and comparing M&S products should be based on software engineering concepts. We shortly introduce some of these engineering concepts and discuss how these relate to the M&S domain. By describing two examples, OSA and JAMES II, we illustrate that reuse might play an important role in the development of high quality M&S products as the examples allow reuse on the level of models and scenarios, on the level of ¿simulation studies¿, of algorithms (e.g., reuse of event queues, random number generators), across hardware architectures/operating systems, and of analysis tools.

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