An object-oriented implementation for a modular, reconfigurable business process simulation

摘要

This paper describes an object-oriented implementation for a modular, reconfigurable business process simulation enviroment. A companion paper by the same authors, presented at this conference, describes the methodology for building the simulation environment. An objectriented approach for developing the simulation software was used to minimize coding through the inheritance and polymorphism capabilities of objectoriented programming languages. The simulation software is also data driven where all data reside in tables external to excutable code permitting reconfigurability, scalability and extensibility of the simulation environment without any code changes.