INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

Abstract: The paper describes some of the elementary principles of the discrete event simulation and goes on to discuss more general simulation issues that are of wider interest, such as the power of object-oriented simulation software packages, such as eM-Plant specialized simulation software. The paper concludes with observations on simulation experimentation and analysis of the results which serves as a basis for decision making processes.
Keywords: simulation modelling, discrete-event simulation, object-oriented, hierarchy model, object,
simulation run, simulation experimentation.

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