This example will be used to illustrate the execution of a simulation
run. It also will help prepare you to use the interactive routine for simulation
in your IOR Tutorial. |
Typically, a simulation study requires writing a special-purpose computer
program of a simulation model that incorporates the specific features of
the system being studied. No single computer program can handle every possible
application of simulation. However, both the interactive routine for simulation
and the Excel template for queueing simulation in your OR Courseware can
handle one especially important category of applications, namely, the study
of basic queueing systems. |
As described in Chapter 17 of your textbook, a queueing system is one
where servers provide some kind of service to customers who, upon arrival,
wait in a queue (waiting line) if necessary until a server is available.
Such a system is depicted below, where each C represents a customer and
each S represents a server. |
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The Littletown bank problem involves just such a queueing system, where
its set of teller windows is the service facility and its 2 tellers are
the servers. |