Product Description While most books on simulation focus on particular software tools, Discrete Event System Simulation examines the principles of modeling and analysis that translate to all such tools. This language-independent text explains the basic aspects of the technology, including the proper collection and analysis of data, the use of analytic techniques, verification and validation of models and designing simulation experiments. It offers an up-to-date treatment of simulation of manufacturing and material handling systems, computer systems and computer networks. About the Author Jerry Banks is a professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He has written books like RIFD Applied, Getting Started With AutoMod and Forecasting and Management of Technology.John S Carson II has been working in the field of discrete-event simulation from 1975. He is a retired faculty member of Ga Tech. Carson worked in AutoMod from 1994 and also ran his own simulation consulting business.Barry L Nelson is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also the President of the INFORMS College on Simulation, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Winter Simulation Conference and the Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logistics.David M Nicol is professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked in collaboration with researchers at NASA, Motorola and IBM. Nicol was the Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions On Modelling and Computer Simulation, from 1997 to 2003.
