An extensible formal framework for the specification and verification of an optimistic simulation protocol

Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a valuable design tool for several problems in engineering, computer science, economics and military applications. As many of these applications require enormous resources, parallel discrete-event simulation (PDES) is of considerable interest. Several parallel discrete-event simulation algorithms with different attributes have been reported in the literature [8]. This is due to the availability of several simulation paradigms with an assortment of optimizations. Parallel discrete-even