Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
SIMULATION
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Mellichamp, J. M.
Right arrow Articles by Venkatachalam, A.R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Other

An interactive debugging expert system for GPSS/H simulation models

Joseph M. Mellichamp, Ph.D

Professor of Management Science The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama

A.R. Venkatachalam, Ph.D

Instructor in Management Science The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Many enhancements to simulation methodol ogy which will reduce the burden on the simulation analyst are likely to come as a result of the integration of expert systems methodol ogy with simulation. One phase of the simulation approach which appears to have particular promise for the integration of expert systems methodology is the model development task. This is perhaps the most time consuming step in the simulation approach and probably requires the highest level of expertise. Interest ingly, the piece of the model development task which is almost certainly the most frustrating to the analyst — program debugging — has attracted very little attention from an expert system perspective. Thus, it would appear that there is both a need and an opportunity for expert systems that could assist system analysts in the program debugging task. The major objective of this research was to develop an expert system which could function as a debugging advisor to simulation analysts. A second objective was to evaluate the expert system and from the evaluation try to make generalizations about the most viable form and structure for such systems in order to guide future research efforts in this area.

SIMULATION, Vol. 55, No. 6, 337-344 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/003754979005500604
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?