The development of complex GPSS programs: An empirical assessment

The underlying theme of this paper is that highly disciplined and well thought out modeling and programming practices are as important to the successful development of a complex simulation program in a structured language, such as GPSS, as they are in an unstructured language, such as FORTRAN. To su...

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Published in:Computers & industrial engineering 1984, Vol.8 (2), p.153-163
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