Experimenting with Simulated Systems

Course Description: Simulation is by far the most commonly used system modeling methodology in every branch of science and engineering. This course will introduce graduate and upper division undergraduate students to methods for using discrete event simulation models to study complex stochastic systems. About a quarter of the course will be devoted to general techniques for system modeling with the remainder concentrating on how simulation models can be used for system selection and optimization. Students will learn how to conduct efficient and effective simulation experiments for practice and research. Recent advances in simulation analysis methodologies will be introduced with some open problems for research indentified.

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