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From: muyanja@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (bill muyanja)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: discrete-event simulation in C++
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Date: 9 Sep 90 06:21:40 GMT
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[Dr. Robert Frey writes]
|Rather than go into more detail here, I recommend you check an introductory
|text on simulation. E.g., Averill Law has a pretty good text available. Sorry,
I don't have the title with me. George Fishman's Principles of Discrete Event
|Simulation is also good.

The book is:

Law, Averill M. and Kelton, W. David:
_Simulation Modeling and Analysis_
McGraw-Hill, 1982.

The second edition may be out by now - I had the misfortune of being one of
the poor graduate students who beta-tested it in 1987!            

Professor Law's book is an excellent treatment of  discrete-event simulation,
especially the stastistical aspects and output analysis.  

S. Manoharan has posted a discrete-event simulation platform, SILO, in
comp.sources.unix.  It is written in C++, and it is based on the concepts
in M.H. MacDougall's "Simulating Computer Systems" (MIT Press, 1987).

MacDougall's book itself is based on a lot of the concepts in Law and Kelton
and includes a simulation system, "smpl", written in C, source code and all.
It also contain fairly sophisticated examples of a multiprocessing computer
simulation and an Ethernet LAN simulation, which is what the original poster
may have been looking for.


Greetings,

Bill
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