Title :
General Purpose Visual Simulation System: A functional description
Author :
Bishop, John L. ; Balci, Osman
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe the functionality of the general purpose visual simulation system (GPVSS), developed as part of a simulation support environment. GPVSS helps a simulationist to: (1) graphically design a simulation model and its visualization under a novel conceptual framework; (2) interactively specify submodel logic; and (3) automatically generate the executable version of the model in C programming language, while maintaining domain independence. GPVSS is developed on a Sun 3/160C computer workstation using the SunView graphical user interface. It consists of over 11000 lines of documented code. The functionality and usage of GPVSS are illustrated by an example problem
Keywords :
digital simulation; graphical user interfaces; programming environments; C programming language; Sun 3/160C computer workstation; SunView graphical user interface; executable version; functional description; general purpose visual simulation system; simulation model; simulation support environment; submodel logic; visualization; Automatic logic units; Computational modeling; Computer interfaces; Computer languages; Graphical user interfaces; Logic design; Logic programming; Sun; Visualization; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 1990. Proceedings., Winter
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-911801-72-3
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.1990.129568
