GPSS<general purpose simulation system>
シミュレーション用の言語の一つ.
待合せ理論に基づき待合せの過程における現象を模擬することを目的とした模擬実験用言語.対象のシステムモデルをこの言語で書き表わしそのままシミュレーションするもので,非常に広範囲の目的に使え,その都度プログラミングせずに簡単に実施できるもの.窓口業務のサービスとか通信回線を介したデータ処理とか,或る事象がそれに要するサービスを受けるまでの時間的な待合わせや,確率の分析などに用いる.1962年にG.Gordonによって開発された.
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/04/18 19:51 UTC 版)
General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) (originally Gordon's Programmable Simulation System after creator Geoffrey Gordon. The name was changed when it was decided to release it as a product) is a discrete time simulation language, where a simulation clock advances in discrete steps. A system is modelled as transactions enter the system and are passed from one service (represented by blocs) to another. This is particularly well suited for problems such as a factory. It was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s but is little used today. GPSS is less flexible than simulation languages such as Simula and SIMSCRIPT II.5.