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From: scp@pullet.lanl.gov (Stephen Pope)
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Subject: Re: simulation classes in OOL
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Date: 29 Sep 89 18:00:28 GMT
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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