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Subject: SIMULATION DIGEST V3 N5
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Date: 5 Jul 88 13:20:46 GMT
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Volume: 3, Issue: 5, Tue Jul  5 09:20:33 EDT 1988

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(1) Query: Info. on Simulation Topics

Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida
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From: rshu%MERIDIAN@ads.com (Richard Shu)
Newsgroups: comp.simulation
Subject: Need some info about general principles of simulation
Date: 1 Jul 88 23:04:48 GMT

I would like to get some pointers about general principles of simulation
such as:

Tick-based vs. event-based simulation (pros and cons)
Object-oriented simulation 
Simulation of combat (especially between large units like divisions)

I've implemented several simulations in Lisp but am not well read in the
simulation literature.  A general discussion of the above topics would be
useful.  Pointers to articles and books would also be appreciated.

Richard Shu



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