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European Council for Modelling and Simulation |
Title: |
The Discrete Event Simulation
Framework DESMO-J: Review, Comparison To Other Frameworks And Latest
Development |
Authors: |
Johannes
Goebel, Philip Joschko, Arne Koors,
Bernd Page |
Published in: |
(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited
by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-6-7 27th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Aalesund, Norway, May 27th –
30th, 2013 |
Citation
format: |
Johannes Goebel, Philip Joschko, Arne Koors, Bernd Page
(2013). The Discrete Event Simulation Framework DESMO-J: Review, Comparison
To Other Frameworks And Latest Development,
ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0100 |
DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0100 |
Abstract: |
This review paper focusses on DESMO-J, a comprehensive and stable
Java-based open-source simulation library. DESMO-J is recommended in numerous
academic publications for implementing discrete event simulation models for
various applications. The library was integrated into several commercial
software products. DESMO-J’s functional range and usability is continuously improved
by the Department of Informatics of the University of Hamburg (Germany). The
paper summarizes DESMO-J’s core functionality and important design decisions.
It also compares DESMO-J to other discrete event simulation frameworks. Furthermore,
latest developments and new opportunities are addressed in more detail. These
include a) improvements relating to the quality and applicability of the
software itself, e.g. a port to .NET, b) optional extension packages like
visualization libraries and c) new components facilitating a more powerful
and flexible simulation logic, like adaption to real time or a compact
representation of production chains and similar queuing systems. Finally, the
paper exemplarily describes how to apply DESMO-J to harbor logistics and
business process modeling, thus providing insights into DESMO-J practice. |
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