Object-oriented Simulation Animation Builder

This paper presents GIGA (Gknkrateur d'Interfaces Graphiques Animkes) a toolbox designed to help in constructing animation builders for discrete flow system simulation results. Each builder is dedicated to a specific domain and allows the production of consistent and realistic animations with high level model validation and verification facilities. GIGA consists of a set of reusable software components and is independent from any simulation packages. The software components are written in C++ on PCIPS micro-computers and HPJAPOLLO workstations and Objective-C under NeXTStep W. The object-oriented modelling process proposed attempts to reduce the gap between the software engineering and simulation communities. Different domains of discrete flow systems are studied including manufacturing systems, administrative systems, queueing network systems and Petri Nets.

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