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Simulation Modeling Handbook: A Practical Approach (INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING SERIES)

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The author addressed the principles of simulation and related techniques well. Discussion on the phases of model building were very interesting, esp. the discussion of the psychology of people management related to modeling projects. The book is well clarified for beginners with limited experience or exposure to simulation modeling. It covers the basic concepts in sufficient details, but yet not to overload the reader with advance abstract concepts, or hard mathematic discussions. Basic understanding of statistics is really all one needs to work through this book.

Substantial sections of the book is dedicated to ARENA, SIMPAK, AutoMOD and AutoStat which I do not personally use, thus was not helpful for me. I felt that these section should have been eliminated.

I was totally lost on Appendix 2. It was not very relevant for the reader. It is a recap of the Table of Contents. It should be removed.

The simulation examples were superb, and were very insightful. More discussions could have been made to these examples, particularly around the model building sections, and the analytics of the results. Unfortunatly, the author simply summarized the process, which I was disappointed.

Overall, I concluded that this book is intended for beginners into simulation modeling. Experienced modelers may not find this book as helpful, particularly for the price paid.

Does a very good job of popularizing simulation among the non statistically, non engineeriing and the non OR oriented.