Contents

• Introduction
  • Discrete Event Simulation
  • Object Oriented
  • Hush
  • Availability
• Program structure
  • The event scheduling strategy
  • Primitives and event states
    • Entities
  • The event-based approach
    • The Dining Philosophers
    • The event class
  • The process-oriented approach
    • The entity philosopher
    • The entity class
  • The simulation class
  • The generator class
  • Hush classes
    • The session class
    • The kit class
    • The widget class
    • The toplevel widget
• Queuing events
  • Queues and resources
  • An M/M/1 Queue
  • Queue behavior
    • Queue swapping
    • Balking
    • Reneging
    • Service pre-emption
    • Time dependencies
  • The resource class
  • The queue class
• Gathering and analyzing results
  • Gathering results with histograms
    • Histogram options
    • Samples and reports
    • The histogram class
  • Realizing accuracy goals
    • Batch means and repetition
  • Analyzing the results
    • Confidence intervals
    • Covariance and correlation
    • Fitting curves and distributions
    • The analysis class
• Graphics
  • A graphical interface for the Dining Philosophers Problem
  • Graphical widgets
    • The screen widget
    • The control widget
    • The simulationclock widget
    • The query widget
• Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
• References
• The generator and some tests
  • The linear congruential generator
  • Tests on the random number stream
  • A test on the distributions
  • A test on the event scheduling strategy
• Probability distributions
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