COST: a component-oriented discrete event simulator

Author

Chen, Gilbert ; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

776

Abstract

COST (Component-Oriented Simulation Toolkit) is a general-purpose discrete event simulator. The main design purpose of COST is to maximize the reusability of simulation models without losing efficiency. To achieve this goal, COST adopts a component-based simulation worldview based on a component-port model. A simulation is built by configuring and connecting a number of components, either off-the-shelf or fully customized. Components interact with each other only via input and output ports, thus the development of a component becomes completely independent of others. The component-port model of COST makes it easy to construct simulation components from scratch. Implemented in C++, COST also features a wide use of templates to facilitate language-level reuse.

Keywords

discrete event simulation; object-oriented programming; software reusability; C++; COST; Component-Oriented Simulation Toolkit; component-based simulation worldview; component-port model; discrete event simulator; input ports; language-level reuse; output ports; simulation model reusability; templates; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Computer science; Computer simulation; Costs; Discrete event simulation; Joining processes; Logic; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Winter

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7614-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2002.1172960

Filename

1172960