Tutorial on building M&S software based on reuse

Abstract

The development of software for modeling and simulation is still a common step in the course of projects. Thereby any software development is error prone and expensive and it is very likely that the software produced contains flaws. This tutorial will show which techniques are needed in modeling and simulation software independent from application domains and model description means and how reuse and the use of state of the art tools can improve the software production process. The tutorial is based on our experiences made on developing and using JAMES II, a flexible framework created for building specialized M&S software products, for research on modeling and simulation, and for applying modeling and simulation.

Software for multistate analysis

“…MicMac uses the JAMES II modeling and simulation framework, developed since 2003 at the Computer Science Department of the University of Rostock (www.jamesii.org; Accessed 21 March 2014). JAMES II is a generic technology for building specialized modeling and simulation software products (Himmelspach 2012). It is written in Java and is available as open source.…”