TY  - GEN
AU  - Jerry Banks
AU  - Joun S. Carson II
AU  - Barry L. Nelson
TI  - Discrete-Event System Simulation
T2  - series 
SN  - 0-13-217449-9
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Jersey 
PB  - Prentice hall
KW  - Ingeniería en tecnologias de la información y comunicaciones
N1  - Editorial 
Prentice hall
ISBN 
0-13-217449-9; Contents

Preface xi

PART ONE Introduction to Discrete-Event System Simulation

1 Introduction to Simulation

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1.1 When is Simulation the Appropriate Tool?

1.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Simulation 4

1.3 Areas of Application 6

Manufacturing Systems 6

Public Systems 7

Transportation Systems 7

Construction Systems 7

Restaurant and Entertainment Systems 8

Business Process Reengineering

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Food Processing

Computer System Performance 8

1.4 Systems and System Environment 8

1.5 Components of a System 8

1.6 Discrete and Continuous Systems 9

1.7 Model of a System 11

1.8 Types of Models 12

1.9 Discrete-Event System Simulation 13

1.10 Steps in a Simulation Study 13

References 18

Exercises 19

2 Simulation Examples

2.1 Simulation of Queueing Systems 22

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2.2 Simulation of Inventory Systems 36

2.3 Other Examples of Simulation

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N2  - The objective of the second edition, the manner and level of presentation, and most of the content remains the same as the first edition. What has changed is the addition of Barry Nelson as an author, new material on many of our previous topics, reor-ganization of some of the material, the deletion of one chapter and the addition of another.

To be more specific, the text now has thirteen chapters. This is the result of adding a chapter on simulation of manufacturing and material handling systems. deleting the chapter on inventory systems, and splitting the old chapter on general principles and computer simulation languages into two chapters. In the process of making changes, many new exercises have been added for the student.

Chapter 1 has been revised extensively with new examples of simulation ap-plications, a new interpretation of advantages and disadvantages of simulation, and some philosophical changes in the steps in a simulation study. Chapter 3, on general principles, contains new material including the concept of linked lists. Much has changed with respect to simulation software since the first edition. Chapter 4, on simulation languages, addresses these changes. We still show an example of simu-lation in FORTRAN, but the remainder of the languages are either updated to their present state or are entirely new. We have also included material on object-oriented simulation. We appreciate the assistance of Alan Pritsker from Pritsker Corporation, and Ron Belanger from ErgoSoft
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