Table of Contents

1. What is Simulation?2. Fundamental Simulation Concepts3. A Guided Tour Through Arena4. Modeling Basic Operations and Inputs5. Modeling Detailed Operations6. Statistical Design and Analysis of Terminating Simulations7. Intermediate Modeling and Steady-State Statistical Analysis8. Entity Transfer9. A Sampler of Further Modeling Issues and Techniques10. Arena Integration and Customization11. Continuous and Combined Discrete/Continuous Models12. Further Statistical Issues13. Conducting Simulation StudiesAppendix A: A Functional Specification for The Washington PostAppendix B: IIE/RS Contest ProblemsAppendix C: A Refresher or Probability and StatisticsAppendix D: Arena’s Probability DistributionsAppendix E: Academic Software Installation InstructionsReferencesIndexCD with current academic version of Arena and all examples used in the book

About the Author

W. DAVID KELTON is Professor in the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management at the University of Cincinnati, where he has also served as MS program director and acting department head. RANDALL P. SADOWSKI is currently enjoying retirement and plans to continue this new career. In his previous life, he was Product Manager for scheduling and data-tracking applications for Rockwell Automation. Prior to that, he was director of university relations, chief applications officer, vice president of consulting services and user education at Systems Modeling Corporation. NANCY B. SWETS (nee Zupick) is the Requirements Analyst for the Arena simulation product at Rockwell Automation. She works with product management, development and Arena customers to research and write out the software requirements for future releases of the software. In addition to this role, she helps manage the IIE/RA Student Simulation Contest and participates in marketing and sales activities.