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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved.Discrete-event simulation (DES) grew largely out of a desire to model manufacturing systems. DES has been applied to a much broader set of applications including health, service industries, transportation, warehousing, supply chains, defence, computer systems and business process management. Much of this work has focused on improving the design and operation of the systems under investigation, but there have also been examples of DES for aiding strategic decision making. DES is seen as a mainstream simulation approach in the field of operational research (OR). This chapter explores these perspectives. It presents an example of a DES model and discusses how DES works (the technical perspective) followed by the worldview adopted by DES modellers (the philosophical perspective). At the centre of DES modelling is the view that it is interconnected randomness that leads to system performance. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion on the software available for DES.
Author(s): Robinson S
Editor(s): Brailsford S; Churilov L; Dangerfield B
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making
Year: 2014
Pages: 10-25
Print publication date: 02/05/2014
Online publication date: 11/04/2014
Acceptance date: 02/04/2014
Series Title: Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Place Published: Chichester
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118762745.ch02
DOI: 10.1002/9781118762745.ch02
Notes: 9781118349021 Hardback ISBN
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781118762745
