A plug-in-based architecture for random number generation in simulation systems

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 836-844

  Ewald, Roland ^a   Rössel, Johannes ^a   Himmelspach, Jan ^a   Uhrmacher, Adelinde M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUG-IN; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; REVALIDATION; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SIMULATION SYSTEMS;

NUMBER THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 60749108354     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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