An Object-Oriented World-View for Intelligent, Discrete, Next-Event Simulation
James R. Burns, J. Darrell Morgeson
Management Science · 1988 · Volume 34 · Issue 12
Abstract
Concepts from software engineering and knowledge engineering are incorporated into discrete, next-event simulation. The existing, conventional world-view utilized within discrete simulation is reviewed. A construct is presented that makes existing discrete simulation world-views more robust for problems involving endogenous decision-making. The use of knowledge bases and inference engines as mechanisms for modeling such decision making is presented. The result is a simulation world view that is able to simulate systems involving intelligent decision-making entities (actors) whose decisions strongly impact the state of the system.
Keywords
simulation, object-oriented programming, knowledge-based systems, actor paradigms
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