"This is an excellent and well-written text on discrete event simulation with a focus on applications in Operations Research. There is substantial attention to programming, output analysis, pseudo-random number generation and modelling and these sections are quite thorough. Methods are provided for generating pseudo-random numbers (including combining such streams) and for generating random numbers from most standard statistical distributions." --ISI Short Book Reviews, 22:2, August 2002

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Simulation in Perspective Modeling Concepts Data Collection and Averages Programming and Execution Search, Space, and Time Output Analysis Making Sense of Output and Increasing Efficiency Sampling from Probability Distributions Pseudorandom Number Generation Preparing the Input