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You have just viewed a simulation of customers arriving into the Littletown bank, waiting (in some cases), and then being served by one of the tellers. How does the simulation model schedule and coordinate all these events? To answer this question, we now will focus on the logic that drove the simulation, step by step, through the demonstration you just saw. |
Conceptually, this process can be described in terms of the time line shown below, which measures the passage of simulated time (in minutes). The Current Time (CT) in the simulation run is labelled. The run begins at time 0. We also will add temporary labels to the line to mark arrivals and service completions that still are relevant to the future operation of the system. |
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