Using the introductory simulation course to teach process dynamics and extended operations management concepts
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Abstract
The introductory simulation course is typically structured around a series of exercises designed to successively expand the students' repertoire of modeling and analysis skills. This paper describes an introductory simulation course in which the student exercises, while still providing an introduction to simulation modeling and analysis, are designed and sequenced to develop understanding and intuition regarding the behavior of stochastic dynamic systems. These exercises present an opportunity to extend a number of simpler analyses typically presented in the introductory Operations Management course.
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December 2006
2429 pages
ISBN:1424405017
- Editors:
- L. Felipe Perrone,
- Barry G. Lawson,
- Jason Liu,
- Frederick P. Wieland,
- General Chair:
- David Nicol,
- Program Chair:
- Richard Fujimoto
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- IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
- ASA: American Statistical Association
- IEICE ESS: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Engineering Sciences Society
- IEEE-CS\DATC: The IEEE Computer Society
- SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
- NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- (SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
- INFORMS-CS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences-College on Simulation
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Published: 03 December 2006
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