Object-Oriented Computer Simulation of Discrete-Event Systems
[Book]
by Jerzy Tyszer.
Boston, MA
Springer US
1999
(xiv, 258 pages)
Kluwer international series on discrete event dynamic systems, 10.
1 Getting started --;1.1 Basic notions --;1.2 Manual simulation --;1.3 Activity scanning --;2 Event scheduling --;2.1 Main paradigm --;2.2 ABC approach --;2.3 Events versus activities --;3 Event lists --;3.1 Doubly linked linear list --;3.2 Indexed linear list --;3.3 Henriksen's list --;3.4 Two-level indexed list --;3.5 Heaps --;3.6 Splay trees --;3.7 Run-time efficiency of event scheduling --;4 Process interaction --;4.1 Basic operations --;4.2 Environment in C++ --;4.3 Distributed simulation --;5 Random number generators --;5.1 Uniform random variables --;5.2 Statistical tests --;5.3 Non-uniform variate generation --;6 Design of simulation experiments --;6.1 Validation of models --;6.2 Analysis of variance --;6.3 Linear regression --;7 Collection and analysis of simulation results --;7.1 Gathering of results --;7.2 Transient phase characteristics --;7.3 Estimation of steady-state phase characteristics --;7.4 Variance reduction methods --;8 Examples of simulation models --;8.1 A simple preemptive system --;8.2 A system with priorities and group servers --;8.3 Assembly line --;8.4 Finite-population queuing model --;8.5 Satellite communication system --;9 Epilog --;10 Exercises --;A Probability distributions --;A.1 The standard normal distribution --;A.2 The Student's t distribution --;A.3 The chi-square distribution --;A.4 The F distribution --;A.5 The Kolmogorov-Smirnov distribution.
Object-Oriented Computer Simulation of Discrete-Event Systems offers a comprehensive presentation of a wide repertoire of computer simulation techniques available to the modelers of dynamic systems.