Discrete simulation and animation for mining engineers. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John R. Sturgul.
• Authors: Sturgul, John R
• Contents: What Is PROOF Animation?; PROOF Animation; Further Work; Exercises; Drawing a Layout ; Making a CLASS; Making a Path; Making the .ATF file; The CREATE Command; The PLACE Command; The MOVE Command; Study of TIME and SPEED; Exercises; More on Layouts I ; More on Layouts; Making Curves; Making Circles; Moving the Grid Coordinates; Changing the Colours of Objects; Exercises; More on Layouts II ; More on Paths; Non-Closed Circular Paths; The Snap to Option; The DESTROY Command in PROOF; Exercises; Some PROOF Icons ; The SET Command and More PROOF Icons; Other forms of the SET Command; SET CLASS; SET OBJECT; More PROOF Icons: Navigating the Top Menu Bar; Exercises; More PROOF Icons ; More PROOF Icons: Navigating the Lower Menu Bar; Exercises; Introduction to the GPSS/H Simulation Language ; Introduction to GPSS/H; Rules for Writing Code in GPSS/H; Continuing a Line of Code; Running a GPSS/H Program; What You Will Need; Running Programs Using the Command Prompt—Up to Windows; Running Programs from Windows 7 and Higher; Making Changes to a GPSS/H Program; Giving Names in GPSS/H; Another Example; Free Format; The SIMULATE Statement; The END Statement; Further Example; Exercises; The GENERATE Block and Transactions ; The GENERATE Block; The Internal GPSS/H Clock; Creating Transactions; The B Operand; A Word about Random Numbers; Results of Simulation Programs; More General Cases of the GENERATE Block; The PRIORITY Block; The TERMINATE Block; The START Statement; The CLEAR Statement; The RMULT Statement; Exercises; ADVANCE and TRANSFER Blocks ; The ADVANCE Block; A Caution in Writing Programs; The TRANSFER Block; Unconditional TRANSFER Mode; The Conditional TRANSFER Block; Exercises; Making .ATF Files ; Making .ATF Files, PUTSTRING, BPUTSTRING, BPUTPIC, PUTPIC and Standard Numerical Attributes; Exercises; QUEUE/DEPART Blocks ; QUEUE/DEPART Blocks—Another PROOF Icon; Another PROOF Icon; Exercises; SEIZE/RELEASE Blocks ; SEIZE and RELEASE Blocks; Exercises; Arithmetic in GPSS/H ; Ampervariables in GPSS/H; Arithmetic in GPSS/H; The LET Statement and the BLET Block; Another Important SNA; Exercises; ENTER/LEAVE Blocks ; The ENTER and LEAVE Blocks; Exercises; Other Forms of the TRANSFER Block ; Several Other Forms of the TRANSFER Block; Exercises; The TEST Block ; The TEST Block; The TEST Block in Refusal Mode; TEST Block in Normal Mode; Exercises; Standard Numerical Attributes ; More on Standard Numerical Attributes; Other SNAs; Exercises; Functions ; Functions; Exercises; Parameters ; Parameters; The ASSIGN Block; A Caution in Using the ADVANCE Block; The ASSIGN Block in Increment or Decrement Mode; The TRANSFER, FN(label ) Block; General Form of the ASSIGN Block; Exercises; More on Parameters ; More on Parameters: The LOOP Block EQU Statement; Exercises; TABLES ; TABLES in GPSS/H; The TABLE Statement; The TABULATE Block; Standard Numerical Attributes Associated with Tables; The MARK Block; Additional Tables; Exercises; LOGIC Switches and the GATE Block ; LOGIC Switches and the GATE Block; Another Form of the TRANSFER Block; Exercises; Miscellaneous Statements ; DO LOOPS, IF, GOTO and LET Statements; Exercises; The SELECT and COUNT Blocks ; The SELECT and COUNT Blocks; The COUNT Block; Other forms of the SELECT and COUNT Blocks; Exercises; Variables and Expressions ; Variables and Expressions, Boolean Variables; Exercises; The BUFFER Block ; The BUFFER Block and the SPLIT Block; Exercises; The ASSEMBLY Block ; Assembly Sets and the ASSEMBLE Block; The ASSEMBLE Block; Exercises; MATCH, GATHER, and PREEMPT Blocks ; MATCH, GATHER, and PREEMPT Blocks; Exercises; MACROs ; MACROs in GPSS/H Subroutines; Exercises; A Few More PROOF Icons ; A Few More PROOF Icons; Exercises; SAVEVALUES ; SAVEVALUES; The SAVEVALUE Block; The FIX and FLT Mode Conversion; The INITIAL Statement; Effect of RESET and CLEAR on SAVEVALUES
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 622.0113; Mining engineering -- Computer simulation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482254426
• Related ISBNs: 9781482254419
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