"Discrete Event Simulations: Development and Applications" ed. by Eldin Wee Chuan Lim

This book presents state-of-the-art contributions on fundamental development of the DES method, novel integration of the method with other modeling techniques as well as applications towards simulating and analyzing the performances of various types of systems. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers as well as professionals who are actively engaged in DES related work.

The Discrete Event Simulation (DES) method has received widespread attention and acceptance by both researchers and practitioners in recent years. The range of application of DES spans across many different disciplines and research fields.
In research, further development and advancements of the basic DES algorithm continue to be sought while various hybrid methods derived by combining DES with other simulation techniques continue to be developed.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Fundamental Development and Analyses of the Discrete Event Simulation Method
1 Distributed Modeling of Discrete Event Systems
2 The Speedup of Discrete Event Simulations by Utilizing CPU Caching
3 Sensitivity Analysis in Discrete-Event Simulation Using Design of Experiments
Section 2 Novel Integration of Discrete Event Simulation with Other Modeling Techniques
4 Discrete Event Simulation Combined with Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis as a Decision Support Methodology in Complex Logistics Systems
Section 3 Applications of Discrete Event Simulation Towards Various Systems
5 Human Evacuation Modeling
6 Discrete-Event Simulation of Botnet Protection Mechanisms
7 Using Discrete Event Simulation for Evaluating Engineering Change Management Decisions

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