Engineering

For advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in System Simulation or Simulation and Modeling.

This text introduces computational and mathematical techniques for modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of various systems. Its goal is to help students gain a better understanding of how systems operate and respond to change by: 1) helping them begin to model, simulate, and analyze simple-but- representative systems as soon as possible; and 2) whenever possible, encourage the experimental exploration and self-discovery of theoretical results before their formal presentation. The authors' approachable writing style emphasizes concepts and insight without sacrificing rigor.

• Manageable presentation:

  • Organized into 10 chapters and 41 sections overall

  • All core sections are consistent with a 75-minute classroom lecture

  • Optional sections in the first nine chapters can be used in a classroom setting as supplemental lectures.

• Computer science orientation—Emphasizes an algorithmic approach throughout.

• C software provided as source code for running simulations developed in the text and for homework exercises—Eliminates need for students to do all their programming from scratch.

• A significant, but secondary, emphasis on Monte Carlo simulation and its relation to static stochastic systems.

• Detailed specifications provided in each section for a variety of discrete-event simulation projects—Designed to integrate much of the core material.

• Approximately 400 exercises provided—Reinforce and extend material and encourage computational experimentation.

• Instructors Solutions Manual—provides solutions to problems in the text.

1. Models

2. Random Number Generation

3. Discrete-Event Simulation

4. Statistics

5. Next-Event Simulation

6. Discrete Random Variables

7. Continuous Random Variables

8. Input Modeling

9. Output Analysis

10. Projects

Appendices:

References

System Simulation (Industrial Engineering)
Simulation and Modeling (Computer Science)
Business Simulation [CORE TEXTS] (Decision Science)

 

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