A brief history of simulation revisited

In response to a request from the WSC Foundation and the WSC 2010 Program Committee, we review and slightly revise our survey of the history of simulation up to 1982, with special emphasis on some of the critical advances in the field and some of the individuals who played leading roles in those advances. Documenting the history of simulation remains a work in progress on our part, and we encourage individuals and organizations in the simulation community to bring significant historical data to our attention.

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[4]  Alan J. Mayne,et al.  Introduction to Simulation and SLAM , 1979 .

[5]  John L. Colley,et al.  Load Forecasting, Priority Sequencing, and Simulation in a Job Shop Control System , 1966 .

[6]  Alice R. Burks,et al.  First General-Purpose Electronic Computer , 1981, Annals of the History of Computing.

[7]  J. S. Dagpunar,et al.  Principles of Discrete Event Simulation , 1980 .

[8]  E. F. Schuster.  Buffon's Needle Experiment , 1974 .

[9]  Averill M. Law,et al.  Simulation Modeling and Analysis , 1982 .

[10]  Henry Tropp.  On Doing Contemporary History , 1981 .

[11]  Richard E. Nance,et al.  The time and state relationships in simulation modeling , 1981, CACM.

[12]  Lee W. Schruben,et al.  Simulation modeling with event graphs , 1983, CACM.

[13]  Harry M. Markowitz.  SIMSCRIPT: PAST, PRESENT, AND SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FUTURE , 1979 .

[14]  Richard E. Nance,et al.  A history of discrete event simulation programming languages , 1993, HOPL-II.

[15]  James R. Emshoff,et al.  Design and use of computer simulation models , 1970 .

[16]  Bernard P. Zeigler,et al.  Toward a Formal Theory of Modeling and Simulation: Structure Preserving Morphisms , 1972, JACM.

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[18]  K. D. Tocher,et al.  The automatic programming of simulations , 2008, J. Simulation.

[19]  Donald E. Knuth,et al.  The art of computer programming. Vol.2: Seminumerical algorithms , 1981 .

[20]  Kristen Nygaard,et al.  The development of the SIMULA languages , 1978, SIGP.

[21]  Bernard P. Zeigler,et al.  Theory of Modelling and Simulation , 1979, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

[22]  Richard E. Nance,et al.  Perspectives on the Evolution of Simulation , 2002, Oper. Res..

[23]  James O. Henriksen.  An improved events list algorithm , 1977, WSC '77.

[24]  Osman Balci,et al.  A methodology for cost-risk analysis in the statistical validation of simulation models , 1981, CACM.

[25]  Burks Aw,et al.  The ENIAC: first general-purpose electronic computer. 1981. , 1995 .

[26]  Richard K. Nance.  On Time Flow Mechanisms for Discrete System Simulation , 1971 .

[27]  Ruth Davies,et al.  The Art of Simulation , 2008, J. Simulation.

[28]  Walter C. Metz.  Discrete event simulation using PL/I based general and special purpose simulation languages , 1981, WSC '81.

[29]  Michael A. Crane,et al.  Simulating Stable Stochastic Systems, II: Markov Chains , 1974, JACM.

[30]  Peter D. Lax,et al.  From Cardinals to Chaos: Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Stanislaw Ulam , 1989 .

[31]  William L. Maxwell,et al.  Some Problems of Digital Systems Simulation , 1959 .

[32]  Geoffrey Gordon,et al.  The development of the General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) , 1978, SIGP.

[33]  Richard W. Conway,et al.  Some Tactical Problems in Digital Simulation , 1963 .

[34]  Richard C. Larson,et al.  Urban Operations Research , 1981 .

[35]  N. R. Davies.  Interactive simulation program generation , 1977, SIML.

[36]  M. H. MacDougall,et al.  The simulation language SIML/I , 1899, 1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK).

[37]  George S. Fishman,et al.  Solution of Large Networks by Matrix Methods , 1976, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

[38]  Nicholas R. Hurst,et al.  GASP IV: A combined continuous/discrete, fortran based simulation language , 1973, WSC '73.

[39]  Russell Schechter,et al.  Introduction to Simulation and SLAM , 1979 .

[40]  David Thomas,et al.  The Art in Computer Programming , 2001 .

[41]  Michael A. Crane,et al.  Simulating Stable Stochastic Systems, I: General Multiserver Queues , 1974, JACM.

[42]  B. P. Ziegler,et al.  Theory of Modeling and Simulation , 1976 .

[43]  Arthur W. Burks.  The ENIAC, First General-Purpose Electric Computer , 1981 .