SIMULATION OF SIMULATING COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS
Eugene Kindler
Department of Mathematics
Ostrava University Faculty of Sciences
CZ – 701 03 Ostrava, Dvorakova 7,
Czech Republic
E-mail: evkind@ksi.mff.cuni.cz
Ivan Krivý
Department of Computer Science
Ostrava University Faculty of Sciences
CZ – 701 03 Ostrava, Dvorakova 7,
Czech Republic
E-mail: Ivan.Krivy@osu.cz
Alain Tanguy
LIMOS CNRS UMR 6158,
University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
Complexe scientifique des Cézeaux, F – 63177 Aubière, France
E-mail: tanguy@isima.fr
ABSTRACT:
Simulation is often applied for (production/logistic) sys-tem design and for system control. In case we simulate a system S during the design phase and know that after being realized the system will have computer(s) support-ing decisions by simulating during the life cycle of S, we have to simulate a system, which contains simulating ele-ments. That carries problems that cannot be solved if only usual simulation programming tools are at disposal. The principles to solve the problems – namely by means of programming languages that are object-oriented, agent-oriented and block-oriented – will be presented in the paper, together with a short presentation of a com-mercial example that already worked – simulation of container terminals that are safe against the deadlocks.
KEYWORDS: Production/logistic systems, Reflective simulation,
Nested simulation, Object-oriented programming
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