A taxonomy of computer-based simulations and its mapping to parallel and distributed systems simulation tools

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 653-673

  Sulistio, Anthony ^a   Yeo, Chee Shin ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed system; Parallel system; Simulation tools; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; PARALLEL SYSTEMS; SIMULATION TOOLS; TAXONOMY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942528902     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.585     Document Type: Article

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