On the Usefulness of SLAM-II for the Modeling and Simulation
of Large Transport Systems
Abstract
Since 1980, the new network-oriented simulation language SLAM, primarily useful
for discrete system simulation, but also applicable to combined continuous and
discrete system simulation, is available, and since then has been successfully
applied by many research groups to a large variety of simulation problems. This
software system, developed by Pritsker & Associates, Inc., certainly represents
a mile stone in topological simulation software development.
This paper discusses a very large industrial application of SLAM for the simulation
of internal transport systems. The aim of this paper is to critically analyse the
aptitude of SLAM for the modeling of such types of systems, to show its advantages,
and to outline its limitations. By these means, we hope to provide future potential
users of SLAM with a decision aid for software selection criteria.
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