[Matrix-SIG] Numeric tutorials at next conference?

[Andrew P. Mullhaupt]

> andy robinson said:
>
> > There is also a VERY high level of interest in the financial
> > community in an extensible event-simulation package and a time
> > series library.
>
> i'd like to hear more about the specifics of whats needed in this
> area. event-simulation means what?

Event simulation is basically a term for simulation of processes in which
there are contingent events. For example, if you wanted to simulate a
grocery store, you might have events like "customer enters aisle 6" and "box
of Fruit Loops taken from shelf and put in customer's cart", etc.

Event simulation support usually means a language in which you can write the
events and dependencies in a reasonably simple way and then a simulation can
be run. Simulation languages go back a long way (Simula is an example) and
people who use them love them.

It makes sense if you don't care about high performance, but not really
otherwise. Really large scale simulations usually can be written, and have
to be written, outside the event simulation paradigm.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt