Introduction To The Visual Simulation Environment

This paper introduces the Visual Simulation Environment (VSE). VSE has been developed under research funding, primarily from the US. Navy for over a decade. It enables discrete-event, general-purpose, object-oriented, picture-based, component-based, visual simulation model development and execution. This advanced environmient can be used for solving complex problems in areas such as air traffic control and space systems, business processes and workflows, computer networks, education, health care, manufacturing, satellite communications, supply chain management, and transportation.