It was created by Joseph L. Doob and others (circa 1945), presented by Dan Gillespie in 1976, and popularized in 1977 in a paper where he uses it to simulate chemical or biochemical systems of reactions efficiently and accurately using limited computational power (see stochastic simulation). As computers have become faster, the algorithm has been used to simulate increasingly complex systems.
The method was created by Joseph L. Doob and others around 1945, presented by Dan Gillespie in 1976, and became widely accepted in 1977 through a paper where he applied it to efficiently and accurately model chemical or biochemical reactions using limited computational resources (see stochastic simulation). As computers have advanced, the algorithm has been used to simulate more complex systems.