Introduction to Object-Oriented Discrete Event Simulation With the OOSIML Language

This paper provides an overview of object-oriented modeling principles and an introduction to developing object oriented simulation models using the OOSimL. The focus is on early introduction to simulation in the computing curriculum. This approach to simulation emphasizes and exploits object-oriented modeling and programming in the large to develop models of simple to complex systems. The paper presents a gentle introduction to object-oriented modeling and simulation using the new language OOSimL. This simulation language was designed and developed for teaching OO simulation early in undergraduate programs in computing. The OOSimL compiler generates Java source code (and recently expanded to generate C++ code).