Simulation

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to simulation and its value as an applied problem-solving tool.

1. Defining simulation: what, why and when?
2. Inside simulation software
3. Software for simulation
4. Simulation studies: an overview
5. Conceptual modelling
6. Developing the conceptual model
7. Data collection and analysis
8. Model coding
9. Experimentation: obtaining accurate results
10. Experimentation: searching the solution space
11. Implementation
12. Verification, validation and confidence
13. The practice of simulation