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Choosing Ada as a base language for the process view of simulation, one would like to adopt the Ada rendezvous for process interaction. This paper investigates the implications of the rendezvous in the context of simulated time. To avoid the danger of deadlock (as exhibited by some proposed systems), a very thorough control of the rendezvous is shown to be necessary. A suitable simulation mechanism is presented and proven. But judged by the ensuing costs the rendezvous is considered to be no attractive choice for general simulation purposes.
Considering methods, this paper uses and contributes to the “space-time view” (L.Lamport) of processes: processes are sequences of actions, and simulated time is a mapping of actions to numerical values.
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Pohlmann, W. (1987). Simulated Time and the Ada Rendezvous. In: Herzog, U., Paterok, M. (eds) Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechensystemen. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73016-0_9
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