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This section describes BondSim, a program which offers a visual environment for the modelling and simulation of engineering and mechatronics systems, based on bond graphs.
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ZLib is a free data-compression library developed by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler, http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/.
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Note, however, that the components stored in the Component Buffer are retained between the BondSim sessions.
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We will use terms like clicking or pressing mouse to mean using the left mouse button. Otherwise the button used will be stated.
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The component ID is based on Microsoft GUID, a globally unique identifier. Each generated GUID is not guaranteed to be unique, but the number of possible GUIDs are so large (2128 or 3.4 × 1038) that the probability of generating the same number twice is very low. It is used in many software products not only by Microsoft, but also by Oracle, Novel, Intel and others [3].
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Note that this operation silently, in the background, saves the component document in order to ensure the correspondence between the component and document ports just created.
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Usually the structured storage data are held on disk in temporary working locations, which are released after final store operation is completed.
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A thread is an execution stream within a process. A single process may be broken up into multiple threads. The threads allow the concurrency. Thus, one tread may execute while the others are busy.
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Damić, V., Montgomery, J. (2015). Object Oriented Modelling in a Visual Environment. In: Mechatronics by Bond Graphs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49004-4_4
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