Discrete Event Simulation Engineering

Abstract

This book explains how to design discrete event simulations with the help of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Discrete Event Process Modeling Notation (DPMN) and how to implement DPMN models with the JavaScript simulation framework OESjs as well as with the Discrete Event Simulation tools Simio and AnyLogic. DPMN is based on the Object Event Modeling and Simulation paradigm, representing a general Discrete Event Simulation approach based on Object-Oriented Modeling and Event Scheduling.

Essentially, DPMN has been developed by incrementally extending Event Graphs by adding increasingly high-level modeling concepts. In the first step, we add the concept of objects, resulting in Object Event Graphs. In the second step, we add the concept of (resource-constrained) activities, resulting in the Activity Network modeling language DPMN-AN. In the third step, we add the concept of processing activities, resulting in the Processing Network modeling language DPMN-PN.

This book has a companion: Business Process Modeling and Simulation with DPMN, with which it has a large overlap.