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

fYear

1990

fDate

9-12 Dec 1990

Firstpage

504

Lastpage

512

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 1990. Proceedings., Winter

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-911801-72-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.1990.129568

Filename

129568