Extendible simulation software for dynamic systems

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Simulation of dynamic physical system models is an integral part of the engineering design process. The software used to perform simulations and the language used to develop that software are, in themselves, important issues to the simulation community. Some significant characteristics of simulation software are: robustness, solution efficiency, ease of learning, ease of regular use, range of modeling features, maintainability, and extendibility. This work investigates the extendibility properties of the relatively new software methodology- object oriented programming- in a simulation context. The reason is that many existing softwares seem to have reached an effective limit with respect to enhancing their capabilities within their original design framework. Object oriented programming, on the other hand, promises to provide good extendibility features by the very nature of its basic concepts. Our investigation, which involved the development of a pilot simulation program in a series of planned stages, shows that this promise is soundly based for dynamic physical system simulation software. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Technical, Dynamic programming, Object oriented programming, Modeling, Data modeling software, Simulation, Block Structure, Object-Oriented Programming

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Software Tool Kit for Building Expert Systems on IBM PC-AT, PC-XT, and UNIX-Based Computers

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Expert systems for a host of technical, engineering, and industrial applications can be developed with the RuleMaster package. RuleMaster runs IBM PC, XT and AT, and UNIX-based microcomputers. The package uses the high-level language, Radial. Rules and Radial code are generated automatically to facilitate speedy application development. Prices for the PC-AT, PC-XT, and UNIX versions are $15,000, $5,000, and $25,000, respectively.

Application development software, Expert systems, UNIX, Personal Computers, New Product, product announcement, Software Packages, Disk Operating System, XENIX, RuleMaster

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