Packages that allow you to construct simulations. Each of the following packages are in Java.

• Silk -- a commercial, process-oriented discrete event simulation package.
• Simjava -- a process-oriented discrete event simulation package for Java, similar to Jade's Sim++, with animation facilities. We are examining a distributed version of Simjava.
• SIMPROD -- another extension of Simjava.
• jaNet -- a neural network toolkit
• JavaSim -- a process-oriented discrete event simulation package derived from C++SIM.
• Simkit -- an object-oriented discrete event simulation package.
• JSIM -- a Java-based Query Driven Simulation package.
• Process/Coroutine -- a java port of the process.c and coroutine.c libraries.
• DEVS-JAVA -- Java implementation of DEVS.
• DESMO-J -- a Java-based process-oriented modeling language derived from DEMOS and Simula.

Simulations that are on the web and available for execution. Some of these execute on the server-side (using CGI scripts for parameter entry and model invocation), others are Java applets that are executed on the client.

• DigSim -- a digital logic simulation written in Java.
• Digital Workshop -- an enhanced version of DigSim with documentation.
• CPU/Disk subsystem -- web-based simulation using SimPack.
• Environmental Simulation -- web-based simulation using SimPack.
• Planes,
• Trains, and
• Automobiles.
• Harmonic Oscillator -- a Monte Carlo simulation in Java.
• GPSS Simulation -- web-based entry and execution.
• Virtual Memory Simulation -- in Java.
• Hysteresis Simulation -- in Java.
• Another Hysteresis Simulation in Java.
• Simulation of a canal and lock system.
• Simulation of a Multiple Virtual Storage computer system.
• Skopeo system animator.
• A gas turbine simulation in Java.
• The Rosa system for reservoir operation.
• Elevator simulation in MODSIM III.

Special- or general-purpose environments that utilize simulation in one or more phases of their life cycle.

• INTERACT -- an interactive, exploratory environment for teaching engineering.
• The TeleSimulation project.
• The MultiVerse project.

Support for the construction and use of distributed simulations. Those noted below have been developed within the U.S. Department of Defense.

• The Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol.
• The Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol.
• The DMSO High Level Architecture.

• Javology -- online eZine of Java news and opinion.
• IEEE Internet Computing
• Marimba -- providers of the Castanet^TM mechanism for software distribution.
• DecisionNet -- a distributed collection of decision technologies that are accessible and executable over the WWW.
• Odyssey -- agent technology from General Magic.
• Inflorescence, Inc. -- products for the creation of interactive, animated documentation of complex processes and procedures over the WWW.
• VRML Repository -- at the San Diego Supercomputing Center.
• Powersim and their WebSim products.
• ActiveX from Microsoft
• CORBA
• A survey of the distributed, multi-player gaming industry.

• Paul Fishwick's survey.

Treatments of relevant topics within the "traditional" literature. (Noted if available on-line.)

A session on web-based simulation at the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, Coronado, CA, 8-11 December 1996:

• Fishwick, P.A. Web-Based Simulation: Some Personal Observations, pp. 772-779.
• Buss, A.H. and Stork, K.A. Discrete Event Simulation on the World Wide Web Using Java, pp. 780-785.
• Nair, R.S., Miller, J.A. and Zhang, Zhang, Z. Java-Based Query Driven Simulation Environment, pp. 786-793.

A session on web-based simulation at the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, Atlanta, GA, 7-10 December 1997:

• Page, E.H., Moose, R.L. Jr., and Griffin, S.P. Web-Based Simulation in Simjava using Remote Method Invocation, pp. 468-474.
• Healy, K.J and Kilgore, R.A. "Silk: A Java-Based Process Simulation Language," pp. 475-482.
• Kreutzer, W., Hopkins, J. and Mierlo, M.v. "SimJAVA - A Framework for Modeling Queueing Networks in Java," pp. 483-488.

The 1998 SCS International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation represents the first conference dedicated to simulation and the WWW.

Planning is underway for the 1999 SCS International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation.

A Technical Conference on Web-Based Simulation will comprise part of the 1998 SPIE AeroSense Symposium

Gordon H. Bradley of the Naval Postgraduate School describes the role of Java in research and publishing in, Dynamic and Interactive Electronic Research Publications Using Java.

Jesse S. Aronson of Science Applications International Corporation compares the current HLA runtime infrastructure efforts with the commercial networked gaming market in, "Approaches to Runtime Communications for Distributed Simulations," presented at the 1997 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL, 3-6 March 1997. SIW papers are on-line. (This paper is number 97S-SIW-070.)

Ross McNab and Fred W. Howell (1996) Using Java for Discrete Event Simulation In: Proceedings of the Twelfth UK Computer and Telecommunications Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW), Univ. of Edinburgh, pp. 219-228.