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Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation<br />

www.dmem.strath.ac.uk/~pball/<strong>simulation</strong>/simulate.html#experimentation<br />

Peter Ball Design Manufacture & Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g Management University of<br />

Strathclyde p.d.ball@strath.ac.uk<br />

SDL->DEVS->PETRI<br />

A <strong>discrete</strong> <strong>event</strong> is someth<strong>in</strong>g that occurs at an <strong>in</strong>stant of time<br />

There are a number of different ways of represent<strong>in</strong>g the logic<br />

with<strong>in</strong> a <strong>discrete</strong> <strong>event</strong> <strong>simulation</strong> model: •Event (patient)<br />

•Activity (Generator, Destroyer, server)<br />

•Process<br />

Detail of the <strong>event</strong> approach structure (from Kreutzer, 1986) 24

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