SNE Comparisons

Simulation News Europe (SNE) features a series on comparisons of simulation software. Based on simple, easily comprehensible models special features of modelling and experimentation within simulation languages, also with respect to an application area, are compared.

Features are, for instance: modelling technique, event handling, numerical integration, steady-state calculation, distribution fitting, parameter sweep, output analysis, animation, complex logic strategies, submodels, macros, statistical features etc.

Ten comparisons have been defined in Simulation News Europe, the series will be continued. Furthermore, a special comparison of parallel simulation techniques has been defined.

For more information you can visit: SNE implementation of DSOL or contact: Alexander Verbraeck.

Supply chain games

Welcome to the portal of the Global Supply Chain Game (http://www.gscg.org). The Global Supply Chain Game (GSCG) library is a flexible environment based on the Java programming language and the DSOL simulation environment to create teaching games within Supply Chain Management using interactive computer-simulation in a distributed setting.

Players have the challenging task to manage a supply chain actor, for example a retailer or a manufacturer, in a complex and dynamic environment. They have to compete with simulated as well as human controlled actors.

Players have different possibilites to play the game. First they may train in an environment where they solely play against simulated actors. In this way, that will learn the functionalities of the actor they control, and the way the graphical user interface works. These graphical user interfaces are used by a player to control a supply chain actor, e.g. a retailer or a manufacturer.

For more information you can contact: Stijn-Pieter van Houten.

Termsim

TermSim (short for Terminal Simulation) is a simulation library for supporting the analysis of container terminal performance. The library is under development to support a PhD research on simulation of logistic systems. Specifically, the potential of integrating operational and economic models is explored. This effort is expected to require the integration of multiple and diverse models, a task for which DSOL seems well equiped.

During the last half year, a prototype model has been developed that demonstrated (among other things) DSOL's ability to interact easily with external databases and spreadsheet applications.

Currently, a model is developed to investigate the impact of operational disruptions (e.g. ship delays) on economic performance. This effort is expected to benefit from DSOL???s ability to support complex systems of statistics.

For more information you can visit: Niels Lang's website.

Traffic Control Strategies: a simulation testbed

A Simulation Test Bed is being developed to support the testing of traffic control strategies. It offers generic simulation components which are based on DSOL simulation environment to provide a flexible testing setting for track-oriented infrastructures. A project is being currently carried out at a tram company in The Hague.

The generic simulation components can be fed with user defined data (data for the physical infrastructure and control strategies) and the results can be assessed by animation and statistics gathered during the simulation runs.

The development of this Test Bed is part of a PhD research project. During 2007, we will extend its usage to real time control in order to provide proactiveness. To that end, the components will be fed either with data retrieved from other applications (database or others) or gathered in real time from the physical infrastructure.

For more information you can contact: mailto:elisangelak@tbm.tudelft.nl}Elisangela Mieko Kanacilo.

Can I present my DSOL project on this site?

Yes, we would very much like to present other DSOL projects on this site. Please send a short description with contact information to mailto:a.verbraeck@tudelft.nl and your project will be added.