SYSTEM SIMULATION AND MODELING (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Understand the basic concepts and procedure of discrete-event simulations; Perform simple discrete-event simulation; Understand the applications of the discrete-event simulation.

Topics:

1. Introduction to discrete-event system simulation;
2. Simulation examples in a spreadsheet;
3. Statistical models in simulation;
4. Queuing models;
5. Random-number generation;
6. Random-variate generation;
7. Input modeling;
8. Verification, calibration, and validation of simulation models;
9. Estimation of absolute performance;
10. Estimation of relative performance;
11. Simulation of manufacturing and material-handling systems;
12. Simulation of networked computer systems.