SIMULATION PROGRAMMING AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS

Techniques are discussed that have arisen for simplifying and speeding development of digital simulation and for increasing the meaningfulness of their results. SIMULATION PROGRAMMING: Of programming languages for a simulation model, the General Purpose Systems Simulator II (IBM DP Div., B20-6346, 1963) should be used if it is adaptable and if memory limitations and running time are not excessive; otherwise SIMSCRIPT (B. H. Markowitz and H. Karr, 'SIMSCRIPT: A Simulation Programming Language,' Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice Hall, April 1963) or other languages should be used. The method of Ginsberg, Markowitz, and Oldfather (AD-613 976) for programming by questionnaire eliminates the need for learning a formal simulation language and reduces the time for obtaining a program to a matter of days or hours. ANALYSIS OF RESULTS: The complication of the variability of simulation results has been approached by Conway (AD-287 527) regarding the time series aspect and by Fishman and Kiviat (AD-612 281) regarding spectral analysis. For presentation at the Simulation Panel of the Department of Defense Logistics Conference to be held at Warrenton, Va., 26-28 May 65.