This book is designed for upper level undergraduate students and first year graduates taking a first course in simulation. The author takes the approach of carrying common examples throughout the text and each chapter has a large number of exercises covering a great variety of applications areas (computer systems, inventory/supply chain management, telecommuniations systems, reliability models, etc).
"This is an excellent and well-written text on discrete event simulation with a focus on applications in Operations Research. There is substantial attention to programming, output analysis, pseudo-random number generation and modelling and these sections are quite thorough. Methods are provided for generating pseudo-random numbers (including combining such streams) and for generating random numbers from most standard statistical distributions." --Isi Short Book Reviews, 22:2, August 2002