"Discrete Event Simulations" ed. by Aitor Goti

This book is an initiative encouraged by Sciyo to promote the Discrete Event Simulation (DES) technique. Considered by many authors as a technique for modelling stochastic, dynamic and discretely evolving systems, this evolution of Monte Carlo stochastic but static technique has gained widespread acceptance among the practitioners who want to represent and improve complex systems.





Since DES is a technique applied in incredibly different areas, this book entitled Discrete Event Simulations reflects many different points of view about DES, thus, all authors describe how DES is understood and applied within their context of work, providing an extensive understanding of what DES is. It can be said that the name of the book itself, Discrete Event Simulations, reflects the plurality that these points of view represented.

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Discrete Event Simulation - Professor Eduard Babulak and Dr Ming Wang
Chapter 2. A dynamically configurable discrete event simulation framework for many-core chip multiprocessors - Christopher Barnes and Jaehwan John Lee
Chapter 3. Modelling methods based on discrete algebraic systems - Hiroyuki Goto
Chapter 4. Supply chain design: guidelines from a simulation approach - Eleonora Bottani and Roberto Montanari
Chapter 5. A simulation technology for supply-chain integration - Shigeki Umeda
Chapter 6. Optimisation of reordering points considering purchasing, storing and service breakdown costs - Aitor Goti and Miguel Ortega
Chapter 7. Reverse logistics: end-of-life recovery pledge - R.C. Michelini and R.P. Razzoli
Chapter 8. Simulating service systems - Raid Al-Aomar
Chapter 9. Evaluation of methods for scheduling clinic appointments in surgical service: a statecharts-based simulation study - Boris G. Sobolev, PhD, Victor Sanchez, MSc and Lisa Kuramoto, MSc
Chapter 10. Condition based maintenance optimization of multi-equipment manufacturing systems by combining discrete event simulation and multiobjective evolutionary algorithms - Aitor Goti and Alvaro Garcia
Chapter 11. Advanced discrete event simulation methods with application to importance measure estimation in reliability - Arne Huseby, Bent Natvig, Jørund Gåsemyr, Kristina Skutlaberg and Stefan Isaksen
Chapter 12. Agent-based modelling and simulation of network cyber-attacks and cooperative defence mechanisms - Igor Kotenko
Chapter 13. Wireless sensor networks: modeling and simulation - Sajjad A. Madani, Jawad Kazmi and Stefan Mahlknecht
Chapter 14. Discrete event simulation of wireless cellular networks - Enrica Zola, Israel Martín-Escalona and Francisco Barceló-Arroyo
Chapter 15. Discrete-event supervisory control for under-load tap-changing transformers (ULTC): from synthesis to PLC implementation - Ali A. Afzalian, S. M. Noorbakhsh and W. M. Wonham
Chapter 16. Stability analysis of 2-d linear discrete feedback control systems with state delays on the basis of lagrange solutions - Guido Izuta