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M. Gyimesi, P. Einzinger, F. Breitenecker:
"Developing Simulation Models Using Statechart Methodology";
Vortrag: EUROSIM 2010 - 7th Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Prague, Czech Republic; 06.09.2010 - 10.09.2010; in: "Proceedings of the 7th Congress on Modelling and Simulation", M. Snorek, Z. Buk, M. Cepek, J. Drchal (Hrg.); Vol.2 Full Papers (2010), ISBN: 978-80-01-04589-3; S. 581 - 586.

development, the object-oriented modelling paradigm has emerged as very useful for modelling of simulation models and object-oriented techniques have been introduced in simulation modelling. Especially statechart diagrams as part of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) have shown to be really useful for discrete event simulation modelling. David Harel of the Weizmann Institute of Science introduced statechart diagrams in the 1980s. He extended the principles of conventional statetransition-diagram formalism, basically drawing states a system can be in and transitions from one state to another, by the concepts of hierarchy, concurrency and communication. Thereby statechart modelling became a powerful and at the same time easy to apply method to model arbitrary systems. The first version of statecharts was applicable for just discrete systems, but in the meantime a real time compliant version as part of the UML for real time (UML-RT) - standard, was developed. While the modelling process is flexible and easy to communicate, the number of
simulation software that supports statechart-modelling is increasing. Therefore we introduce statechart methodology as a general method for modelling simulation models and emphasise the usefulness in agent based modelling.

Discrete Event Simulation, Hybrid simulation, Statecharts, Object oriented Modelling, UML