Computer Simulation Applications: Discrete-Event Simulation for Synthesis and Analysis of Complex Systems
System Simulation
The art of simulation
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Since World War II system modeling has played an increasingly important role in the analysis of complex systems in both the private and public sectors. In the broadest sense, a model may be considered to be a representation of reality without the presence of reality itself. Hence, pictures, graphs, management games, computer programs and mathematical equations may be considered models of those systems which they represent. For the purposes of this discussion we will restrict our attention to that class of models which attempts to capture the relationship between the behavior of a measure or measures of system effectiveness and the behavior of those variables and parameters which influence the measure(s) of effectiveness and includes simulation and mathematical models. The specific focus of our attention will be on simulation models.