Lee Schruben
ABSTRACT
This article describes an easy to use graphical simulator specifically designed for teaching the fundamental concepts of discrete event simulation modeling. The simulator permits students to have the satisfaction of building working models early in a course without having to learn a specific commercial language. The simulator is “disposable” in the sense that students can replace the various components of the simulator with their own routines as they progress through the course. It is thus possible for the students to customize their own personal graphically oriented modeling language. Models built on this simulator are also easily implemented in higher level simulation languages making the simulator a useful modeling aid even for simulation courses that are built around a specific language.
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- A “disposable” graphical event synthesizer for teaching simulation model building
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