SIMSCRIPT II.5(ID:1803/sim047)

Simulations package 

SIMSCRIPT II.5

the first true CACI SIMSCRIPT.
Related languages
SIMSCRIPT II => SIMSCRIPT II.5   Evolution of
SIMSCRIPT II.5 => GPSSS   Incorporated some features of
SIMSCRIPT II.5 => SIMPAS   Productisation of
References:
  • Kay, I. M. "Digital Discrete Simulation Languages. Discussion and Inventory" view details Extract: Simscript II.5
    Simscript II. This is a scientific programming language, which enables discrete-event simulation. A descendant of, but not compatible with, the original Simscript, it was designed by Markowitz and Karr, with additional work done by P. Kiviat and R. Villaneueva at RAND. Simscript II contains five "levels," which provide a wide range of capability for use as a scientific and/or data processing language, as well as providing event-oriented simulation capability. It is also available in copyrighted versions: Simscript II Plus and Simscript II.5.
          in Kay Ira M. and John McLeod,(Eds.), Progress in Simulation. New York: Gordon and Breach 1972 view details
  • Sammet, Jean E. "Roster of Programming Languages for 1973" p147 view details
          in ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974 view details
  • Leavenworth, Burt M.; Sammet, Jean E. "An overview of nonprocedural languages" pp1-12 view details Abstract: This paper attempts to describe some of the basic characteristics and issues involving the class of programming languages commonly referred to as ?nonprocedural? or ?very high level?. The paper discusses major issues such as terminology, relativeness, and arbitrary sequencing. Five features of nonprocedural languages are described, and a number of specific languages are discussed briefly. A short history of the subject is included.
    Extract: SIMSCRIPT
    Simulation languages introduced nonprocedural concepts in essentially two areas: associative referencing and the concept of a "process". Although associative referencing was not a particularly new idea at the time, SIMSCRIPT introduced the concept of representing and modeling systems in terms of entities and their attributes, and the referencing and updating of data items based on indirect addressing of their properties rather than on an explicit search. Both LISP and IPL-V used the notion of property lists but did not exploit this idea in quite the same way as SIMSCRIPT
          in Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages, March 28-29, 1974, Santa Monica, California, United States view details
  • Gordon, Geoffrey "System simulation" (2nd ed.) Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1978, 324 pp., ISBN 0-13- 881797-9 view details
          in Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages, March 28-29, 1974, Santa Monica, California, United States view details
  • Sammet, Jean E "Roster of programming languages for 1976-77" pp56-85 view details
          in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11) Nov 1978 view details
  • Scher, J. M. review of Gordon 1977 view details
          in ACM Computing Reviews 19(06) June 1978 view details
  • Seila, Andrew F. "Discrete event simulation in Pascal with SIMTOOLS" view details Abstract: In recent years a great deal of research effort has been devoted to improving simulation software. Products currently available for discrete event simulation include GPSS/H, SIMSCRIPT II.5, SIMULA, SLAM, SIMAN, SIMPAS, PASSIM, and ASSE, to name a few. Some of these products (SIMSCRIPT II.5 and SIMPAS, for example) use process-oriented approaches. All of them assume an entity-attribute-set basis for describing the model to be simulated. SIMSCRIPT II.5 and SIMULA are general-purpose simulation programming languages. Alternatively, GPSS/H, SIMAN, SLAM, Micro NET, INTERACTIVE and ASSE are “packages” (I won't debate whether the terminology “language” is appropriate or not) that were developed primarily for simulating queueing networks, such as might be found in manufacturing or computer systems. SIMPAS is a preprocessor for a Pascal program that converts “simulation” statements into Pascal code for compilation and execution.
          in The 16th Winter Simulation Conference 28-30 November 1984 Sheraton Dallas Hotel, Dallas, TX view details
  • Nance, Richard E. "Simulation programming languages: an abridged history" view details
          in The 27th Winter Simulation Conference 3-6 December 1995 Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA view details
  • Markowitz, Harry M. "Oral history interview by Jeffrey R. Yost, 18 March 2002, San Diego, California". OH 333 Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. view details
          in The 27th Winter Simulation Conference 3-6 December 1995 Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA view details
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