This book is designed for upper level undergraduate students and first year graduates taking a first course in simulation. The author takes the approach of carrying common examples throughout the text and each chapter has a large number of exercises covering a great variety of applications areas (computer systems, inventory/supply chain management, telecommuniations systems, reliability models, etc).

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Inhalt
1 Simulation in Perspective.- 2 Modeling Concepts.- 3 Data Collection and Averages.- 4 Programming and Execution.- 5 Search, Space, and Time.- 6 Output Analysis.- 7 Making Sense of Output and Increasing Efficiency.- 8 Sampling from Probability Distributions.- 9 Pseudorandom Number Generation.- 10 Preparing the Input.- Appendix More on the Batch-Means Method.- A.1 FNB Rule (Section 6.6.4).- A.2 SQRT Rule (Section 6 6 5).- Author Index.