The COSY Simulation Language

Abstract

COSY is a new simulation language for the simulation of COmbined continuous and discrete SYstems. With its continuous subsystem, COSY represents a new CSSL type simulation language. COSY coded continuous simulation programs look quite similar to CSMP coded programs. As a matter of fact,the COSY definition even constitutes a superset of CSSL, since many additional structuring elements are incorporated (e.g., for comfortable modeling of variable structure systems. For the discrete subsystem, a combined process and event orientation has been used. Discrete COSY programs will, thus, look similar to SIMULA-67 or GPSS-V programs. In addition to these two subsystems, new elements have been incorporated into the language definition to allow for coding combined continuous and discrete systems as we11. A PASCAL coded preprocessor translates COSY input into GASP-V executable code, where GASP-V is an ANSI FORTRAN-IV coded subroutine package presented at the last IMACS Congress in Delft.


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