Ciw: An open-source discrete event simulation library. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Palmer, Geraint I.; Knight, Vincent A.; Harper, Paul R.; Hawa, Asyl L.
• Is Part Of: Journal of simulation. Volume 13:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 68
• Page End: 82
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Reproducibility -- discrete event simulation -- open source -- python; Operations research -- Periodicals; Mathematical models -- Periodicals; Simulation methods -- Periodicals; 511.805
• DOI: 10.1080/17477778.2018.1473909
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1747-7778

Abstract

Abstract : This paper introduces Ciw, an open-source library for conducting discrete event simulations that has been developed in Python. The strengths of the library are illustrated in terms of best practice and reproducibility for computational research. An analysis of Ciw's performance and comparison to several alternative discrete event simulation frameworks is presented.