journal article
LitStream Collection
Home
doi: 10.1177/003754978404300302pmid: N/A
Peripheral array processors are a class of digital computing devices designed to serve as peripherals for large mainframe, minicom puters, and microcomputers. Through extensive parallelism and pipelining, peripheral array processors greatly enhance the capabilities of the host computer to process numerical data at a very high speed, particularly in simulation and signal proces sing applications. An overview of the peripheral array proces sing field is presented in this paper followed by a discussion of five different approaches to the performance specification and evaluation of these devices.
doi: 10.1177/003754978404300303pmid: N/A
ISIM is a new simulation language for both 8- and 16-bit micro computers. It is derived from the interactive simulation language ISIS, which has been installed on a variety of minicomputers and mainframes over the past few years. ISIM can run on a small 8-bit microcomputer with the CP/M operating system, 48K bytes of memory and floppy discs. It also runs on the larger 16-bit com puters operating under CP/M 86 or MS-DOS, and on the IBM PC operating under PC-DOS. Its interactive graphics capability is best exploited using a graphics terminal or the microcomputer's integral graphics display (e.g., IBM PC Graphics Adapter). The language features interactive 'command' and 'program' modes and incorporates a simple editor and a file handling facility which is fully compatible with the operating system. ISIM provides a comprehensive, highly interactive, simulation environment which allows the user full control of the simulation. These features allow the simulation to be interrupted to enable the user to display or modify values of all user variables, change in tegration control variables, or perform post-mortem plots before proceeding with the execution of the run.
Legasto, Augusto; Muriel, Amador; Norman, Morton
doi: 10.1177/003754978404300304pmid: N/A
A crisis triggered procedure is applied to analysis of the criminal justice system of the United States; in particular, the develop ment of a "crisis triggered" computer simulation model of the criminal justice system is reported. The model is then used to identify potential major crises that have occurred or are ex pected to occur in the criminal justice system, to simulate them, and to study alternative regimes or patterns of recovery that the system may undergo.
Showing 1 to 8 of 8 Articles