Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Department of Business Administration


Chair of Production and Operations Management
(Lehrstuhl für Produktion und Logistik)

040669 PR KFK PM/SCM/TL Praktikum Simulation I


Tentative Schedule (check for updates)
Slides and further course material  will be available for download and will be made available throughout the semester. The download of slides is password-protected. You'll need to provide your unet-user (aXXXXXXX) and your unet-password.
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Lesson 1 Vorbesprechung & Introduction to Simulation
Date October 1, 2009
Topics
  • administrative
    • outline general procedure (grading policy, topics to be covered, etc.)
    • make sure everyone fulfills requirements
  • introduction to simulation
    • what is simulation?
    • why doing simulation?
    • modeling
    • different kinds of simulation
    • the buffon needle problem
    • discrete event simulation
  • review of basic probability and statistics
  • overview on AnyLogic
required readings Chapter 1 [Basic Simulation Modeling]
Chapter 4 [Review of Basic Probability and Statistics]
in Simulation Modeling & Analysis by Averill M. Law
[Kopiervorlage im WiWi-Center]
recommended readings Statistik im Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften,
by Werner Brannath & Andreas Futschik
[you'll find this book in the library]
Slides 1 - Intro into Simulation.pptx
2 - Statistics.pptx
Homework install and register AnyLogic on your computer/laptop (you already got the instructions by email)

Lesson 2 Statistics
Date October 15, 2009
Topics
  • input probability distributions
  • random-number gernators
required readings Chapter 6 [Selecting Input Probability Distributions] (Sections 6.1 - 6.6)
Chapter 7 [Random-Number Generators]
in Simulation Modeling & Analysis by Averill M. Law
[Kopiervorlage im WiWi-Center]
Slides 3 - Input Probability Distributions.pptx
3 - Input Probability Distributions.xls
4 - RNG and Probs.pptx
Homework hw1.txt
2 - Statistics_hw.xlsx
3 - Input Probability Distributions_hw.xlsx
Solution 2 - Statistics_hw_sol.xlsx
3 - Input Probability Distributions_hw_sol_part1.xls

Lesson 3 Queueing Theory
Date October 22, 2009
Topics
  • Introduction
  • Little's Law
  • state diagram and steady-state probabilities
  • M/M/1
  • M/M/s
  • M/M/s with finite queue
  • M/M/s with finite calling population
recommended readings Formelsammlung zum Thema Zahlenfolgen und Summenformeln
zB Mathematische Formelsammlung, von Kraft, Hruby, Bürger & Unfried
Kapitel 13 Zahlenfolgen
required readings Chapter 15 [Queueing Theory] bzw. Kapitel 16 [Warteschlangentheorie]
in Introduction to Operations Research,
by Frederick S. Hillier & Gerald J. Liebermann
[you'll find this book in the library]
Slides 6 - Queuing Theory.pptx
Homework homework_queueing.pdf
Solution

Lesson 4 Examples on Queueing Theory & Intro to AnyLogic
Date October 29, 2009
Topics
  • Examples on Queuing Theory (analytically)
  • Intro to AnyLogic
  • Bank Departement Model
    • creating a simple model
    • creating model animation
    • collecting utilization statistics
    • adding custom animation for clients
    • adding teller lines logic
    • collecting customer time statistics
required readings AnyLogic 6 Enterprise Library Tutorial

Chapter 1 [Working with AnyLogic]
Chapter 2 [AnyLogic Help]
Chapter 3 [Working with Models]
in AnyLogic 6 Users Guide

Chapter 1 [About AnyLogic Enterprise Library]
Chapter 2.1 [Source]
Chapter 2.2 [Sink]
Chapter 2.3 [Delay]
Chapter 2.4 [Queue]
Chapter 2.5 [SelectOutput]
Chapter 2.6 [ResourcePool]
Chapter 2.8 [Service]
in AnyLogic 6 Enterprise Library Reference Guide
Slides AnyLogic 6 Users Guide (available for download here)
AnyLogic 6 Enterprise Library Tutorial (available for download here)
AnyLogic 6 Enterprise Library Reference Guide (available for download here)
Homework homework_queueing.pdf (examples 4 - 13, using AnyLogic)
Solution

Lesson 5 Java Tutorial
Date November 5, 2009
Slides AnyLogic Model Development Environment
AnyLogic Java Tutorial



Lesson 6 Fragestunde & Discussion of Homework
Date November 12, 2009
Topics


Lesson 7 Final Exam
Date November 20, 2009
Topics to be announced