[ACM Press the 42nd annual Southeast regional conference - Huntsville, Alabama (2004.04.02-2004.04.03)] Proceedings of the 42nd annual Southeast regional conference on - ACM-SE 42 - Teaching object-oriented simulation with PsimJ simulation package

✍ Scribed by Garrido, José M.; Im, Kyungsoo

• Book ID: 111952254
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2004
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 0
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781581138702
• DOI: 10.1145/986537.986643

✦ Synopsis

PsimJ is a Java-based discrete-event simulation package that supports the process interaction approach to simulation. This paper presents insights of how this simulation tool can help improve the teaching of object-oriented simulation. The simulation tool can also be used to help to understand and visualize a concept or a system. It can also be used to reinforce learned concepts through the design and development of a simulation model. A comparison of MODSIM III and PsimJ is provided as an introduction to show that PsimJ has a comparative set of functionalities to MODSIM III, a once widely used commercial simulation package.