This book provides an essential foundation in Modelling and Simulation, intended for students in introductory courses, and for self-study by professionals and others interested in the features and potential of this rapidly evolving problem-solving paradigm.

Fully updated and expanded new edition

The only textbook to give a balanced and integrated presentation of modelling and simulation activity for both discrete-event dynamic systems and continuous-time dynamic systems

Contains numerous examples, algorithms, exercises and projects, in addition to a series of primers in the appendices, and teaching support material at an associated website

Fully updated and expanded new edition The only textbook to give a balanced and integrated presentation of modelling and simulation activity for both discrete-event dynamic systems and continuous-time dynamic systems Contains numerous examples, algorithms, exercises and projects, in addition to a series of primers in the appendices, and teaching support material at an associated website

Autorentext

Louis G. Birta is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Gilbert Arbez is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Zusammenfassung

Fully updated and expanded new edition

The only textbook to give a balanced and integrated presentation of modelling and simulation activity for both discrete-event dynamic systems and continuous-time dynamic systems

Contains numerous examples, algorithms, exercises and projects, in addition to a series of primers in the appendices, and teaching support material at an associated website

Inhalt

Part I: Fundamentals .- Introduction.- Modelling and Simulation Fundamentals.- Part II: DEDS Modelling and Simulation .- DEDS Stochastic Behaviour and Modelling.- A Conceptual Modelling Framework for DEDS.- DEDS Simulation Model Development.- The Activity-Object World View for DEDS.- Experimentation and Output Analysis.- Part III: CTDS Modelling and Simulation .- Modelling of Continuous Time Dynamic Systems.- Simulation with CTDS Models.- Part IV: Simulation Optimization .- Optimization Overview.- Simulation Optimization in the CTDS Domain.- Simulation Optimization in the DEDS Domain.- Appendix A: ABCmod Applications in M&S Projects.- Appendix B: Probability and Statistics Primer.- Appendix C: GPSS Primer.- Appendix D: MATLAB Primer.