[AISWorld] New JSimE article released: Information and Process Modeling for Simulation – Part I: Objects and Events

[Gerd Wagner]

The*Journal of Simulation Engineering (JSimE)*  has just published its
latest article:

    G. Wagner (2018), Information and Process Modeling for Simulation –
    Part I: Objects and Events, https://articles.jsime.org/1/1


Abstract
In simulation engineering, a system model mainly consists of an
information model describing a system's state structure and a
process model describing its dynamics. In the fields of Information
Systems and Software Engineering, there are widely used standards
such as the Class Diagrams of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
for making information models, and the Business Process Modeling
Notation (BPMN) for making process models. This tutorial presents
a general Object Event Modeling (OEM) approach for Discrete Event
Simulation modeling using UML class diagrams and BPMN-based process
diagrams at all three levels of model-driven simulation engineering:
for making conceptual domain models, for making platform-independent
simulation design models, and for making platform-specific, executable
simulation models. In this approach, object and event types are
modeled as special categories of UML classes, random variables are
modeled as a special category of UML operations constrained to comply
with a specific probability distribution, and queues are modeled as
ordered association ends, while event rules are modeled both as
BPMN-based process diagrams and pseudo-code.

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Dr. Gerd Wagner
(1) Professor, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
(2) Adjunct Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, USA
Email: G.Wagner at b-tu.de
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(1) Chair of Internet Technology
Brandenburg University of Technology
Cottbus, Germany
http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/IT
Tel: (+49|0)355.69.2397
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(2) Department Modeling, Simulation
and Visualization Engineering
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, USA