Termination Signal

[matt4530]

Currently, simulation.run(..) runs until the events created by it, and only it, have all been responded to, success or failed.

In some circumstances, we want the simulation to run until a signal is received. For example, it is possible that an event may have created child events and the parent event completes before child events do. In such a case, the simulation needs to run for longer. In other cases, we want to terminate the simulation before all events have received a response.

A signal might be:

• A time
• A completion of all child events
• A particular stage has reached a certain number of calls to workOn

[bjfoutz00]

Use cases

• Run for a number of events

• Run for a length of time

• Run until application stalls

• Run until signal: subcases? a certain method has been called x times

• Maybe even use signals for all cases.
  Run in a loop until certain criteria has been met