Visvesvaraya Technological University is a collegiate public state university in Karnataka State, India.

SYSTEM MODELLING AND SIMULATION 06CS82

SYLLABUS 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; Poisson process; Empirical distributions.

UNIT – 4 6 Hours Queuing Models: Characteristics of queuing systems; Queuing notation; Long-run measures of performance of queuing systems; Steady-state behavior of M/G/1 queue; Networks of queues; Rough-cut modeling: An illustration.. PART – B

UNIT – 5 8 Hours 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 Generation: Inverse transform technique; Acceptance-Rejection technique; Special properties.

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