Object-oriented software implementation for manufacturing systems.(A Formal Structure for Discrete Event Simulation, part 2): An article from: IIE Transactions

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From the author: This paper describes the development of a prototype object-oriented software system for discrete event simulation and the embedded decision processes of a system being modeled based on previously defined formalism [1] and the Smalltalk programming language. The paper addresses the modular and structured representations of physical and logical entities of a manufacturing system for simulation modeling in the form of reusable software objects. The software takes advantage of the natural link between object-oriented programming and simulation and utilizes inheritance and other features of object-oriented programming to achieve modular yet uniform representation at every level of the model. After giving a brief overview of the object-oriented modeling environment and the relationships between software objects and formalism constructs, a small number of object classes and their operations are summarized. The intelligent entities of the formalism utilize a knowledge-based non-programmed decision mechanism implemented in Smalltalk.

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Title: Object-oriented software implementation for manufacturing systems.(A Formal Structure for Discrete Event Simulation, part 2)
Author: S. Cem Karacal
Publication:IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v30 Issue: n3 Page: p217(10)

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