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This chapter introduces SMURPH tools for implementing interactions among the processes of the simulation program. The flexibility of those interactions underlies the expressing power of the programming language offered by SMURPH, which extends beyond pure simulation models. We show how SMURPH mailboxes can be used to interface a SMURPH program to external devices thus equipping it with a reactive (event-driven) interface to the outside world.
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Not to be confused with the Client messages described in Sect. 6.2.
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Another difference will come into play when the mailbox is exposed (Sect. 12.5.2).
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This does not happen for a counting mailbox, in which case TheItem returns NULL.
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Nondeterministically , or according to the order attributes of the wait requests (Sect. 5.1.1).
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This can only happen for a mailbox owned by a process, as opposed to one owned by a station.
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Such a mailbox must be owned by a process rather than by a station (Sect. 9.2.1).
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Gburzyński, P. (2019). Mailboxes. In: Modeling Communication Networks and Protocols. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 61. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15391-5_9
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