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## What is DSOL?

DSOL is an open source, java based, suite for continuous and discrete event simulation. Its first release was introduced at IEEE's Winter Simulation Conference 2002.

## Why DSOL?

The hypothesis underlying the development of DSOL is that the web-enabled era has provided us with the tools and techniques to specify the concepts of simulation in a set of loosely-coupled, web-enabled services. An underlying notion on the quality of most current simulation tools is that they lack:

- usefulness: with respect to their embedded knowledge of the system under investigation. It is too difficult to link simulation tools to underlying transactional information systems.
- usability with respect to coordination of distributed conceptualization and specification of models representing the system under investigation.
- usage with respect to their integration and use within (portalled) organizational management information systems.

## What are the requirements of DSOL?

- N decision makers should be supported over the internet by the suite;
- N model formalisms should be supported (continuous, discrete)
- N model formalisms should be supported (continuous, discrete)
- N experts should be simultaneously be supported in the specification of models
- Simulation services should be equipped to be linked to other web-enabled services (reporting, databases)
- \item N processors should be accessible for the execution of experiments.