The Research Queuing Package Modeling Environment (RESQME)

Abstract

The Research Queueing Package Modeling Environment (RESQME) provides a graphical environment for constructing, solving, and analyzing the results of extended queueing network models of resource contention systems. It has been used to improve the performance of existing and planned systems in such application areas as computer systems, communications networks, manufacturing processes, transportation systems, customer service facilities. RESQME provides the capability to specify a queueing model by drawing a network diagram and attaching attribute information to each object in the diagram.It then evaluates the model using its general-purpose, discrete event simulation software and produces graphical and tabular performance results, along with animation on the original model diagram.Cofildence interval methods are incorporated to insure that the results of a simulation meet the desired level of accuracy.

Specification and simulation of queuing network models using Domain-Specific Languages

“…There are several commercial packages to queuing network modeling, like QNAP2 [9], the PDQ analyzer [10], SPE•ED [11], RESQME [12], BEST/1 [13], CSIM [14]. There are also many academic tools including TANGRAM-II [15], SHARPE [16], JINQS [17,18], qnetworks [19] and JMT [20] (for a very complete list, see [21]).…”

“…Others are provided with a graphical user interface, which shows the results (SHARPE, JMT and WinPEPSY-QNS). RESQME [12,59,60] is even capable of animating the models as the discrete event simulations progress. Our tool outputs the results in a textual format readable by spreadsheet applications (csv format, Figure 14).…”

The qnetworks Toolbox: A Software Package for Queueing Networks Analysis

“…It provided a modelling language for describing extended QN models, which then could be solved by either analytical of simulation techniques. A graphical user interface (called RESQME [7]) was developed in order to facilitate the model definition process. A similar tool was QNAP2 [8], which provided different solution methods (analytical or simulation-based) for analyzing product and non-product form QNs.…”