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Title: Object-oriented simulation for the Superconducting Super Collider

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/72745· OSTI ID:72745
 [1];  [2]
  1. Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
  2. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

This paper describes the design and implementation of an object-oriented simulation environment called OZ for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). The design applies object-oriented technology to data visualization, behavior modelling, dynamic simulation and version control. A meta class structure is proposed to model different types of objects in large systems by their functionality. OZ provides a direct-manipulation user interface which allows the user to visualize the data as an object in the database and interactively model the component of the system. Modelling can be exercised at different levels of the class hierarchy and then can be dynamically bound into a system for simulation. Inheritance is used to derive new configurations of the system or subsystem from the existing one, and specify an object`s behavior. Delegation is used to construct a system by instantiating existing objects and ``stealing`` their methods by delegators.

Research Organization:
Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC35-89ER40486
OSTI ID:
72745
Report Number(s):
SSCL-Preprint-148; ON: DE95011102; TRN: 95:015263
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Oct 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English