A general simulation model of an on-line telephone directory assistance information retrieval system
Wiley A Hall · NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries) · 1969
During the course of the development of the Directory Assistance System, it was desirable to study the expected performance of a wide variety of hardware configurations. Instead of creating a separate simulation program for each proposed design, it was decided to construct and implement a single, more general model. The model to be described is such that very little, if any, modification to the body of the program is necessary to describe all pertinent details of any given design to be simulated. The user need only modify the appropriate input parameters to experiment with a different configuration.