An automatic programming approach to simulating prelaunch activities

Abstract

This paper presents the develop ment of an automatic program ming (AP) system for simulat ing prelaunch activities. The Automatic Network Program ming System (ANPS) is a tool to assist the modeler define a problem and then to automati cally generate the corresponding code in the target simulation language.

Keywords

automatic program ming simulation prelaunch discrete event

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