Towards an Ontological Foundation of Discrete Event Simulation

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to transfer some results in the meta-theory of conceptual modeling of software systems to discrete event simulation modeling. We present

Highlights

  • using an ontologically well-founded modeling language seems to be even more relevant for simulation engineering than for software system engineering
  • DES is the most fundamental simulation paradigm
  • both UML and BPMN, with suitable modifications and enhancements based on their ontological analysis and im- provement, have a high potential as simulation modeling languages.

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