HSMA - the little book of DES
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Licencing, Attribution and Acknowledgements
Part 1 - DES Concepts and Design
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Introduction to DES Concepts
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Exercise - Designing a DES
Part 2 - Your First SimPy Model
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An Introduction to SimPy
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The Recommended Structure for DES Models
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An example simpy model
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Adding Multiple Activities
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Adding Branching Paths
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Exercise - Building Your First Model
Part 3 - Extending Your Model
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Warm Up Periods
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Priority-Based Queueing
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Modelling Resource Unavailability
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Choosing Distributions
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Reproducibility
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Reneging, balking and jockeying
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Modelling Variable Arrival Rates
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Exercise - Practicing Advanced Concepts
Part 4 - Advanced Performance Tracking and Visualisation
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Tracking Resource Utilisation
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Other Model Metrics
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Visualising Model Metrics
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Visualising Entity Flow
Part 5 - Advanced Concepts
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Requesting Multiple Resources Simultaneously
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Scheduling Arrivals
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Dealing With Appointment Bookings
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Advanced Appointment Booking Model Features
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Multi-step Appointment Booking Models
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Testing Large Numbers of Scenarios
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Parallelisation
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Creating Web Apps
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Alternative FOSS Simulation Libraries and Software
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Further Reading
References
References
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Further Reading