A View From the Beginning: When Does a Description Become a Taxonomy

This paper describes the author's career leading up to the publication of his 1969 paper Digital Computer Simulation: Computer Programming Languages, how it influenced the paper, and why the paper has endured as a taxonomy for discrete-event simulation programming languages.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Philip J. Kiviat
• Keywords: Computer Programming Languages, Discrete-event Simulation Programming, Modeling And Simulation, Paper Digital Computer, WSC 2004