Application of the DEVS framework in construction simulation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2077-2086

  Palaniappan, Sivakumar ^a   Sawhney, Anil ^a   Sarjoughian, Hessam S ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

APPLICATION DOMAINS; COMPONENT BASED; CONSTRUCTION SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS SPECIFICATION; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; HIERARCHICAL SIMULATION; HOME BUILDING; JA VA PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED; REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE TOOLS; WORK FLOWS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 46149084930     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2006.322996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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