Spring Term, 2008  . Text: Discrete-Event System Simulation by Banks, Carson, Nelson, and Nicol (Prentice-Hall) Course Software: Extend LT (version 6) from Imagine That, Inc. [with Manufacturing Module] (there is a student version available in the bookstore which includes an electronic version of the language reference manual; UNF also has a 10 station lab license) Course Prerequisites: Programming experience in a procedurally-oriented language (e.g., C/C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Java) Data structures and statistics Description: In this course problems of modeling, especially those that lend themselves to solution by computer simulation, will be discussed. The course concentrates on discrete models with an eye to implementation in the Windows implementation of the Extend simulation environment. During the progress of the course, discrete models for a variety of real-world systems will be described, including worked-out implementations in Extend, where appropriate. Assignments will generally consist of modeling exercises, to include Extend implementation, statistics gathering, and analysis for stability. Attention will be given to model verification, validation, and documentation. Techniques for generation of pseudo-random numbers, sampling from empirical distributions, and sampling from distributions associated with a variety of probability density functions will be discussed.