A tutorial on simulation programming with SIMPAS

摘要

SIMPAS is a portable, strongly-typed, event-oriented, discrete system simulation language embedded in PASCAL. It extends PASCAL by adding statements for event declaration and scheduling, entity declaration, creation and destruction, linked list declaration and manipulation, and statistics collection. A library of standard pseudo-random number generators is also provided. This paper gives a tutorial on simulation programming using SIMPAS. We briefly discuss event-oriented simulation language concepts, give an overview of the programming language PASCAL, and then describe in detail the simulation extensions that SIMPAS provides.