DEUS: a Discrete Event Universal Simulator

Michele Amoretti; Matteo Agosti; Francesco Zanichelli

2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

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DEUS: a Discrete Event Universal Simulator

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    author={Michele Amoretti and Matteo Agosti and Francesco Zanichelli},
    title={DEUS: a Discrete Event Universal Simulator},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5754}
}

Michele Amoretti
Matteo Agosti
Francesco Zanichelli
Year: 2010
DEUS: a Discrete Event Universal Simulator
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5754

Michele Amoretti¹^,*, Matteo Agosti¹^,*, Francesco Zanichelli¹^,*

1: Distributed Systems Group, Information Technology Department, University of Parma (Italy)

*Contact email: amoretti@ce.unipr.it, agosti@ce.unipr.it, zanichelli@ce.unipr.it

Abstract

Currently available discrete event simulation tools exhibit important limitations, either being too specific, or providing only a partial API and possibly not enough scalability. In this paper we introduce our novel general purpose simulator, called DEUS, which aims at becoming one of the reference tools in the field of complex system simulation. Its essential Java API provides basic interfaces and classes for modelling nodes, events and processes characterizing the structure and dynamics of any complex system. High usability, configurability and memory efficiency are among the strengths of DEUS, as exemplified in this paper by means of the simulator of Chord peer-to-peer systems we implemented with minor coding effort.

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5754