SYSTEM MODELING AND SIMULATION
Sub Code: 10CS82 IA Marks : 25
Hrs/Week: 04 Exam Hours : 03
Total Hrs: 52 Exam Marks : 100
PART – A
UNIT – 1 8 Hours
Introduction: When simulation is the appropriate tool and when it is not
appropriate; Advantages and disadvantages of Simulation; Areas of
application; Systems and system environment; Components of a system;
Discrete and continuous systems; Model of a system; Types of Models;
Discrete-Event System Simulation; Steps in a Simulation Study. The basics
of Spreadsheet simulation, Simulation example: Simulation of queuing
systems in a spreadsheet.
UNIT – 2 6 Hours
General Principles, Simulation Software: Concepts in Discrete-Event
Simulation: The Event-Scheduling / Time-Advance Algorithm, World
Views, Manual simulation Using Event Scheduling; List processing.
Simulation in Java; Simulation in GPSS
UNIT – 3 6 Hours
Statistical Models in Simulation: Review of terminology and concepts;
Useful statistical models; Discrete distributions; Continuous distributions;
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Poisson process; Empirical distributions.
UNIT – 4
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Queuing Models: Characteristics of queuing systems; Queuing notation;
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Long-run measures of performance of queuing systems; Steady-state
behavior of M/G/1 queue; Networks of queues; Rough-cut modeling: An
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Random-Number Generation, Random-Variate Generation: Properties of
random numbers; Generation of pseudo-random numbers; Techniques for
generating random numbers; Tests for Random Numbers Random-Variate
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Generation: Inverse transform technique; Acceptance-Rejection technique;
Special properties.
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UNIT – 6 6 Hours
Input Modeling : Data Collection; Identifying the distribution with data;
Parameter estimation; Goodness of Fit Tests; Fitting a non-stationary Poisson
process; Selecting input models without data; Multivariate and Time-Series
input models.
UNIT – 7 6 Hours
Estimation of Absolute Performance: Types of simulations with respect to
output analysis; Stochastic nature of output data; Absolute measures of
performance and their estimation; Output analysis for terminating
simulations; Output analysis for steady-state simulations.
UNIT – 8 6 Hours
Verification, Calibration, and Validation; Optimization: Model building,
verification and validation; Verification of simulation models; Calibration
and validation of models, Optimization via Simulation
Text Books:
1. Jerry Banks, John S. Carson II, Barry L. Nelson, David M. Nicol:
Discrete-Event System Simulation, 5th Edition, Pearson Education,
2010.
(Listed topics only from Chapters1 to 12)
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Reference Books:
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1. Lawrence M. Leemis, Stephen K. Park: Discrete – Event
Simulation: A First Course, Pearson Education, 2006.
2. Averill M. Law: Simulation Modeling and Analysis, 4th Edition,
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Tata McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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