Xref: utzoo comp.lang.eiffel:444 comp.lang.c++:4868 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!lambda!scp From: scp@pullet.lanl.gov (Stephen Pope) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: simulation classes in OOL Message-ID:Date: 29 Sep 89 18:00:28 GMT References: <917@dutrun.UUCP> Sender: news@lanl.gov Organization: The Santa Fe Institute, NM Lines: 41 In-reply-to: winffww@dutrun.UUCP's message of 27 Sep 89 13:30:51 GMT In article <917@dutrun.UUCP> winffww@dutrun.UUCP (Folkert W. Wierda) writes: At Delft University of Technology, Department of Information Systems, we are currently working on the construction of a 'toolbox for simulation'. This is not supposed to be Just Another Simulation Language, but is an environment for dynamic modelling of e.g. information systems. Anyone interested in the particularities of this research can contact me for getting some papers on the research. However, we are evaluating the feasability of different programming languages for building such an environment. At the moment we are working with Turbo Pascal, with EIFFEL, with BETA and with the simulation language SIMAN. Other candidates would be C++ and SMALLTALK-80. We are interested in receiving any experience on similar projects, with emphasis on the feasability of the different languages for creating simulation/modelling environments. Furthermore we are very much interested in the existence of simulation classes in any of the above mentioned programming languages. You might want to check out SIM++ from Jade. It's a simulation ``system'' which provides you with a library of base classes which you derive from and define operations for, and then compile to build your simulator. It is pretty comprehensive, and can be coupled with their ``Time Warp'' package, which lets you distribute the simulation over any number of computers on a network (only certain types of boxes, though!) to do the job in a distributed fashion. The contact for more info is: Jade Simulations International Corporation #80, 1833 Crowchild Trail N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T2M 4S7 Tel (403) 282-5711 Rumor has it though, that prices are going up ... Stephen Pope Santa Fe Institute scp@sfi.santafe.edu