Abstract

The quest for a simulation scheme that combines the preciseness of the PDEVS formalism with the ease of use of standard simulation environments has lead to the definition of NSA-DEVS, which has meanwhile been shown to provide a useful basis for real-world applications. A set of modeling and simulation tools for NSA-DEVS is freely available that uses Matlab as programming language and the graphical editor of Simulink for the construction of complex models from simple atomic components.

To demonstrate that these tools are ready for general discrete-event based applications, the implementation of a textbook example is presented in some detail. It is shown that components that are necessary for a transaction-oriented style can be modeled easily, leading to a comprehensible model with a solid mathematical basis.