DEVS as Part of and Integrating Tool in a Course on System Dynamics

ERNESTO KOFMAN; SERGIO JUNCO,

New Orleans

Congreso; International Conference on Simulation in Education; 2005

Society for Computer on Simulation International

This paper describes the introduction of the DEVS formalism in a course on System Dynamics in the computer science career at the National University of Rosario. The experience, which started in 2001, attempts to show that DEVS can play an important role not only in the context of discrete event modeling and simulation but also as a tool which helps to integrate the main concepts of general system theory in a language which is familiar to computer science students. Besides giving a detailed description of the concepts developed in the course, we also present the lab works, homework problems, and term project assigned to the students, as well as the software tools used in the course.