KotlinDES

A simple discrete event simulation (DES) framework implemented in Kotlin. This repository can be seen as a companion implementation to an article on DES that I wrote recently (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-build-discrete-event-simulations-markus-voelter).

Runnnig

• This is an IntelliJ (2023.1.3) Gradle project.
• After cloning it, you can either open it in IntelliJ and use its Gradle window to test the code, or you can run ./gradlew test from the command line.
• The test task executes the (as of now, few) tests in src/test/kotlin.

Open Issues

• Performance: more efficient sorted list for the queue
• Performance: We could add a variant of monitors that fire only once; they would then be removed from the list so we don't unnecessarily continue testing condition.
• Performance: Simulation.latest is inefficient.

Acknowledgements

Thank you very much Federico Tomassetti for reviewing my code and suggesting more idiomatic uses of Kotlin.