This article deals with the computer simulation of processes of organizational choice under conditions of ambiguity and/or conflict. It is in line with efforts by Cohen, March, Olsen and others to investigate in those areas of problem resolution and ...

A prototype simulation of the operations of an automated hospital materials handling system is constructed in GASP IV to investigate the feasibility of the modeling scheme employed and to evaluate some alternative rules to be used in system operation. ...

The precision of several “standard” probabalistic process generators, as provided to the GPSS user in various textbooks and language manuals, are investigated in this paper. In particular, the unique requirements in GPSS for integral increments in its ...

This paper describes the interactive debugging feature of GPSS/H (1), a new implementation of GPSS for IBM 360/370 computers. In GPSS/H, interactive debugging of a simulation model is carried out by means of a simple, but powerful command language. ...

A system called POWER has been developed for the optimal location of high voltage power lines. The system employs a Dijkstra network-search algorithm, a type of modified dynamic programming. An optimal corridor, based on a least-cost criterion, is ...

Five theories of the origin of juvenile delinquency are incorporated into a DYNAMO language social system simulation. The model framework includes population, education and economic systems. The model also contains cultural or value factors which are ...

This paper discusses the application of a GPSS (General Purpose Simulation System) model to a unique planning situation on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Various factors influencing levels of tourism are evaluated in addition to resultant economic and ...

This paper describes an optimization module which can be added to the GASP IV software package to provide automated optimization of a set of user defined decision variables. The optimization procedure is a variation of the Hooke-Jeeves pattern search ...

Simulation languages typically are designed to substantially reduce the time and cost required to build simulation models by automatically providing commonly needed facilities, such as statistics gathering, a timing mechanism, random deviates, powerful ...

GASP is a simulation language that provides an organizational structure to build models that can be used to simulate the dynamic performance of systems on a digital computer. The organizational structure of GASP allows the variables that define system ...

Early effort in a simulation study is concerned with defining the system to be modeled and describing it in terms of logic flow diagrams and functional relationships. But eventually one is faced with the problem of describing the model in a language ...

GPSS(General Purpose Simulation System) is a simulation programming language whose use greatly eases the task of building computer models for discrete-event simulations. (A discrete event simulation is one in which the state of the system being ...