Simulation Modelling: Concepts, Tools and Practical Business Applications

While simulation has a vast area of application, this textbook focuses on the use of simulation to analyse business processes. It provides an up-to-date coverage of all stages of the discrete-event simulation (DES) process, covering important areas such as conceptual modelling, modelling input data, verification and validation and simulation output analysis.

The book is comprehensive yet uncomplicated, covering the theoretical aspects of the subject and the practical elements of a typical simulation project, demonstrated by cases, examples and exercises. It also shows how simulation relates to new developments in machine learning, big data analytics and conceptual modelling techniques. Guidance is provided on how to build DES models using the Arena, Simio and Simul8 simulation software, and tutorials for using the software are incorporated throughout.

Simulation Modelling offers a uniquely practical and end-to-end overview of the subject, which makes it perfect required or recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying business simulation and simulation modelling as part of operations research, business analytics, supply chain management and computer science courses.

儘管模擬應用範圍廣泛，本教科書專注於使用模擬來分析業務流程。它提供了關於離散事件模擬（DES）過程的最新涵蓋，包括重要領域如概念建模、建模輸入數據、驗證和驗證以及模擬輸出分析。

本書全面而簡潔，涵蓋了該主題的理論方面和典型模擬項目的實際元素，並通過案例、示例和練習進行演示。它還展示了模擬與機器學習、大數據分析和概念建模技術的新發展之間的關聯。本書提供了使用Arena、Simio和Simul8模擬軟件建立DES模型的指導，並在整本書中融入了使用該軟件的教程。

《模擬建模》提供了一個獨特的實用和全面的概述，使其成為高年級本科生和研究生在經營模擬、模擬建模作為運營研究、商業分析、供應鏈管理和計算機科學課程的必讀或推薦讀物。

Andrew Greasley is Lecturer in Supply Chain Analytics and Modelling in the School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Andrew Greasley是英國伯明翰阿斯頓大學基礎設施和可持續工程學院的供應鏈分析和建模講師。