What Every Engineer Should Know About Modeling and Simulation

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WHAT EVERY ENGINEER
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
MODELING AND
SIMULATION
WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW
A Series
Series Editor*
Phillip A. Laplante
Pennsylvania State University
1. What Every Engineer Should Know About Patents, William G. Konold,
Bruce Tittel, Donald F. Frei, and David S. Stallard
2. What Every Engineer Should Know About Product Liability, James F. Thorpe
and William H. Middendorf
3. What Every Engineer Should Know About Microcomputers: Hardware/Software
Design, A Step-by-Step Example, William S. Bennett and Carl F. Evert, Jr.
4. What Every Engineer Should Know About Economic Decision Analysis,
Dean S. Shupe
5. What Every Engineer Should Know About Human Resources Management,
Desmond D. Martin and Richard L. Shell
6. What Every Engineer Should Know About Manufacturing Cost Estimating,
Eric M. Malstrom
7. What Every Engineer Should Know About Inventing, William H. Middendorf
8. What Every Engineer Should Know About Technology Transfer and Innovation,
Louis N. Mogavero and Robert S. Shane
9. What Every Engineer Should Know About Project Management,
Arnold M. Ruskin and W. Eugene Estes
10. What Every Engineer Should Know About Computer-Aided Design and
Computer-Aided Manufacturing: The CAD/CAM Revolution, John K. Krouse
11. What Every Engineer Should Know About Robots, Maurice I. Zeldman
12. What Every Engineer Should Know About Microcomputer Systems Design and
Debugging, Bill Wray and Bill Crawford
13. What Every Engineer Should Know About Engineering Information Resources,
Margaret T. Schenk and James K. Webster
14. What Every Engineer Should Know About Microcomputer Program Design,
Keith R. Wehmeyer
15. What Every Engineer Should Know About Computer Modeling and Simulation,
Don M. Ingels
16. What Every Engineer Should Know About Engineering Workstations,
Justin E. Harlow III
17. What Every Engineer Should Know About Practical CAD/CAM Applications,
John Stark
18. What Every Engineer Should Know About Threaded Fasteners: Materials and
Design, Alexander Blake
19. What Every Engineer Should Know About Data Communications,
Carl Stephen Clifton
20. What Every Engineer Should Know About Material and Component Failure,
Failure Analysis, and Litigation, Lawrence E. Murr
21. What Every Engineer Should Know About Corrosion, Philip Schweitzer
22. What Every Engineer Should Know About Lasers, D. C. Winburn
23. What Every Engineer Should Know About Finite Element Analysis,
John R. Brauer
*Founding Series Editor: William H. Middendorf
24. What Every Engineer Should Know About Patents: Second Edition,
William G. Konold, Bruce Tittel, Donald F. Frei, and David S. Stallard
25. What Every Engineer Should Know About Electronic Communications Systems,
L. R. McKay
26. What Every Engineer Should Know About Quality Control, Thomas Pyzdek
27. What Every Engineer Should Know About Microcomputers: Hardware/Software
Design, A Step-by-Step Example, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded,
William S. Bennett, Carl F. Evert, and Leslie C. Lander
28. What Every Engineer Should Know About Ceramics, Solomon Musikant
29. What Every Engineer Should Know About Developing Plastics Products,
Bruce C. Wendle
30. What Every Engineer Should Know About Reliability and Risk Analysis,
M. Modarres
31. What Every Engineer Should Know About Finite Element Analysis: Second
Edition, Revised and Expanded, John R. Brauer
32. What Every Engineer Should Know About Accounting and Finance,
Jae K. Shim and Norman Henteleff
33. What Every Engineer Should Know About Project Management: Second Edition,
Revised and Expanded, Arnold M. Ruskin and W. Eugene Estes
34. What Every Engineer Should Know About Concurrent Engineering,
Thomas A. Salomone
35. What Every Engineer Should Know About Ethics, Kenneth K. Humphreys
36. What Every Engineer Should Know About Risk Engineering and Management,
John X. Wang and Marvin L. Roush
37. What Every Engineer Should Know About Decision Making Under Uncertainty,
John X. Wang
38. What Every Engineer Should Know About Computational Techniques of Finite
Element Analysis, Louis Komzsik
39. What Every Engineer Should Know About Excel, Jack P. Holman
40. What Every Engineer Should Know About Software Engineering,
Phillip A. Laplante
41. What Every Engineer Should Know About Developing Real-Time Embedded
Products, Kim R. Fowler
42. What Every Engineer Should Know About Business Communication,
John X. Wang
43. What Every Engineer Should Know About Career Management, Mike Ficco
44. What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High-Tech Business Venture,
Eric Koester
45. What Every Engineer Should Know About MATLAB® and Simulink®,
Adrian B. Biran with contributions by Moshe Breiner
46. Green Entrepreneur Handbook: The Guide to Building and Growing a Green
and Clean Business, Eric Koester
47. Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists,
Phillip A. Laplante
48. What Every Engineer Should Know About Cyber Security and Digital Forensics,
Joanna F. DeFranco
49. What Every Engineer Should Know About Modeling and Simulation,
Raymond J. Madachy and Daniel X. Houston
50. What Every Engineer Should Know About Excel, Second Edition,
J.P. Holman and Blake K. Holman

WHAT EVERY ENGINEER
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

MODELING AND
SIMULATION
Raymond J. Madachy
Daniel X. Houston
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Contents
Chapter1 Introduction.....................................................................................1
1.1 BookScope.............................................................................1
1.2 SystemsandModels...............................................................1
1.3 WhatisSimulationModelingandWhyModel?....................2
1.4 OverviewofSimulationModelTypes....................................3
1.5 Applications............................................................................4
1.6 IntroductoryExamplewithBasicMeasures...........................6
1.6.1 Queue-ServerSystem.................................................6
1.7 Summary...............................................................................13
Chapter2 ModelingandSimulationMethod.................................................15
2.1 Introduction...........................................................................15
2.2 Engagement..........................................................................16
2.3 ModelSpecification..............................................................17
2.4 Modeling...............................................................................21
2.4.1 ModelingParadigms................................................21
2.4.2 ModelConstruction.................................................23
2.4.3 DataCollectionandInputAnalysis.........................25
2.5 ModelAssessment................................................................26
2.5.1 ExperimentationandOutputAnalysis.....................29
2.6 MakingRecommendationsandReporting...........................29
2.7 KnowledgeandSkillsforModelingandSimulation............31
2.8 Summary...............................................................................32
Chapter3 TypesofSimulation.......................................................................35
3.1 Continuous............................................................................36
3.1.1 ConservedFlowsandtheContinuousView............37
3.1.2 ModelElements.......................................................38
3.1.3 MathematicalFormulationofSystemDynamics....39
3.2 DiscreteEvent.......................................................................43
3.2.1 NextEventTimeAdvanceApproach......................44
3.2.2 Common Processes and Objects in Discrete
Systems....................................................................45
3.3 AgentBased..........................................................................52
3.3.1 Agent-BasedModelElements.................................54
3.4 Summary...............................................................................57
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