Training courses

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1 - The General Purpose Language

• SIMSCRIPT III - Program Structure
• Variable Names and Syntax Rules
• Control Structures
• Sample Problem
• Data Structures - Entities, Attributes & Sets
• PC SIMSCRIPT III
• Lab Exercise - Entities, Attributes & Sets

Day 2 - The Simulation Language

• Modeling the Passage of Time
• Processes
• The Telephone Model
• Time
• Resources
• The Airport Model
• The Pacific Port Problem - Discrete Process Simulation

Day 3 - Random Numbers, Statistics, and SIMGRAPHICS

• Events
• The Airport Model (revisited)
• Random Numbers and Statistics
• Modernizing a Bank - with replications
• Presentation Graphics
• The Pacific Port Problem (revisited) - Subroutines Called from a Process & Statistics

Day 4 - Advanced Simulation Topics

• User Interface Forms
• Efficiency
• Monitoring
• Interrupting and Suspending Processes
• The Communications Center
• Externally Activated Processes
• The Pacific Port Problem (reprise) - Exogenous Events and Interrupt/Resume

Day 5 - Continuous Simulation and SIMANIMATION

• Continuous Simulation
• Demonstration of SimAnimation
• Animated Graphics
• Heathrow Airport - Animation Problem