DEVS Framework for Component-based Modeling/Simulation of Discrete Event Systems

This paper applies a component-based framework to discrete event systems simulation and then develops a component-based simulation environment. The environment is based on combination of the sound modeling formalism of DEVS (Discrete Event Systems Specification) and the powerful component standard of COM (Component Object Model). The combination results in the DEVS/COM run-time infrastructure which supports binary reusability of simulation models developed with multi-languages in a modular form. It has been shown that such reusability provides modelers with flexibility in modeling as well as efficiency in models development time