Contents 1 Introduction
Most of scientific works related to tools comparison analyze only a small set of tools and usually evaluating several parameters separately, avoiding to make a final judgment, due to its subjectivity.
Abstract:
This paper documents a work on all-purpose discrete event simulation tools evaluation. Selected tools must be suitable for process design (e.g. manufacturing or services ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper documents a work on all-purpose discrete event simulation tools evaluation. Selected tools must be suitable for process design (e.g. manufacturing or services industries). Rather than making specific judgments of the tools, authors tried to measure the intensity of usage or presence in different sources, which they called “popularity”. It was performed in several different ways, including occurrences in the WWW and scientific publications with tool name and vendor name. This work is an upgrade to the same study issued 5 years ago (2011), which in its turn was also an upgrade of 10 years ago (in 2006). It is obvious that more popularity does not assure more quality, or being better to the purpose of a simulation tool; however, a positive correlation may exist between them. The result of this work is a short list, of 19 commercial simulation tools, with probably the nowadays' most relevant ones.
Published in: 2016 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
Date of Conference: 11-14 December 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 19 January 2017
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 1558-4305
