DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB USING JAVA

This paper introduces Simkit, a small set of Java classes for creating discrete event simulation models. Simkit may be used to either implement stand-alone models or Web page applets. Exploiting network ca-pabilities of Java, the lingua franca of the World Wide Web (WWW), Simkit models can easily be imple-mented as applets and executed in a Web browser. Java’s graphical capabilities enable the rapid devel-opment of intuitive user interfaces. Java’s use of in-terpreted bytecodes, while imposing a performance penalty, enable development of platform-independent models. The language’s inherent internet-awareness make other possibilities, such as distributed simula-tion, much easier to implement.