Introduction to SLAM II and SLAMSYSTEM

SLAM II is a general-purpose language which has been used since 1979 to model a wide variety of systems in fields including (but not limited to) manufacturing, transportation, communication, computer systems, military operations, health care and banking. Experience with these applications, plus development in simulation research, have led to the expansion of the language throughout its lifetime. The ease of using the SLAM II language was greatly increased by the introduction of SLAMSYSTEM in 1988; SLAMSYSTEM Version 4.5 is the most recent release, arriving in 1994. SLAMSYSTEM is an integrated simulation system based on the Microsoft Windows interface (under MS-DOS) or the OS/2 Presentation Manager. This tutorial demonstrates the process of building, analyzing, and presenting SLAM II simulation models using SLAMSYSTEM. A major revision of the product is under development as of this writing and is described in the tutorial.

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