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Spreadsheet simulation

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

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Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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"Spreadsheet simulation" refers to the use of a spreadsheet as a platform for representing simulation models and performing simulation experiments. This tutorial explains the reasons for using this platform for simulation, discusses why this is frequently an efficient way to build simulation models and execute them, describes how to setup a spreadsheet simulation, and finally examines some limitations on the use of spreadsheets for simulation.

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Pichitlamken JKajkamhaeng SUthayopas PJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)High performance spreadsheet simulation on a desktop gridProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516869(663-670)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516869

Spreadsheet simulation
1. Applied computing
2. Mathematics of computing

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

2429 pages

ISBN:1424405017

Editors:
L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Program Chair:
Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Pichitlamken JKajkamhaeng SUthayopas PJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)High performance spreadsheet simulation on a desktop gridProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516869(663-670)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516869

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