In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is ...
Appropriate for junior- senior-level Simulation courses in departments of Engineering, Management and Computer Science; or a second course in Simulation. This text provides a basic treatment of discrete-event simulation, one of the most widely used operations research and management science tools for dealing with system design in the presence of ...
"Simulation with Arena" provides a comprehensive treatment of simulation using industry-standard Arena software. The text starts by having the reader develop simple high-level models, and then progresses to advanced modeling and analysis. Statistical design and analysis of simulation experiments is integrated with the modeling chapters, reflecting ...
Real World Data Sets with new problems along with ARIS, McGraw-Hill's "Homework Management System", define what this second edition has to offer. Within ARIS, Navidi offers 300 algorithmic practice problems along with Java applets that allow students to interactively explore ideas in the text. Customizable PowerPoint lecture notes for each chapter ...
"Ecological Models and Data in R" is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, this book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques to analyze their own data using ...
SIMSOC: Participant's Manual SIMSOC (which is pronounced sim-sock and stands for simulated society) is a dynamic group simulation game that forces participants to cope with the daily problems of governing society. Assuming a variety of roles, the players grapple with issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity, trust, and leadership as they ...
"Serious Play" is about serious work: how the world's leading companies model, prototype, and simulate to innovate. Increasingly, prototypes are the key platforms and models are the core media for managing risk and creating value. They allow for cost-effective creativity, encourage profitable improvisation, and inspire organizations to collaborate ...
While playing Barnga, participants experience the shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things differently from in profoundly important ways, especially people from differing cultures. Players learn that they must understand and reconcile these differences if they want ...
This survey of advanced chemistry covers virtually all the useful reactions - 600 all told - with the scope, limitations and mechanism of each described in detail. Extensive general sections on the mechanisms of the important reaction types and five chapters on the structure and stereochemistry of organic compounds and reactive intermediates are ...
Steve Grand discusses what he learned about the nature of artificial intelligence from his invention of the British game Creatures--a game where players guide artificially intelligent animals--and arrives at some accessible and insightful conclusions about life.
Engineers will benefit from this book because it blends the theoretical aspects of simulations with a simulation package so they can put the concepts to practice. It utilizes the Arena Simulation Environment as the primary modeling tool for simulation. More detailed discussions of the statistical aspects of simulation are presented than are found ...
In this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natural growth, and suggests a set of rules and guidelines by which we can inject that 'organic' character back into our High Streets, buildings, and squares. At a time when so many of Britain's inner ...
Get any training session off the ground fast or jumpstart one whenever it lags - with more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling "Games Trainers Play" series. Their names may range from "Tombstone Planning" to "The 'Nobel' Prize Winner," but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission ...
APPLIED SIMULATION MODELING provides the student with both a conceptual introduction to the concepts of simulation modeling and practical experience with real examples using popular commercial simulation packages ARENA and @Risk. The coverage includes Risk Simulation, Dynamic Systems, and Discrete Event Simulation models. Throughout the text, the ...
For courses in Strategic Management, Business Policy, and Marketing Strategy. Easy to start-up and use-even for students and instructors with no computer experience-this Windows based strategic management simulation puts student teams in the position of running a regional airline. By analyzing a company's history, financial reports, and other ...
This computerized multi-business unit simulation provides players with real-world experience in managing strategic choices and in negotiating. This edition incorporates trends in strategic management, new software that allows the use of local area networks, and theories of industrial and firm behaviour. It should be easy to start-up and use - even ...
Now in a third edition, this book teaches physical concepts using computer simulations. The text incorporates object-oriented programming techniques and encourages students to develop good programming habits in the context of doing physics. Designed for college students at all levels, An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods uses Java, ...
Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, raises scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical issues. This book brings together overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of "Artificial Life".
Computer simulation is an essential tool in studying the chemistry and physics of liquids. Simulations allow us to develop models and to test them against experimental data. They can be used to evaluate approximate theories of liquids, and to provide detailed information on the structure and dynamics of model liquids at the molecular level. This ...
Creating numerical groundwater models of field problems requires careful attention to describing the problem domain, selecting boundary conditions, assigning model parameters, and calibrating the model. This unique text describes the science and art of applying numerical models of groundwater flow and advective transport of solutes. It explains ...
Designed for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators and instructional designers, "Learning by Doing" explains how to select, research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of educational simulation for the right situation. It covers simple approaches that use basic or no technology through projects on the scale of ...
SBI is an advanced word processing simulation designed to reinforce word processing skills using documents such as letters, memos, reports, tables, programs, and newsletters as well as composition, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. There are also extended levels of applications that include most of the commonly used Word expert ...
This title offers a timely treatment of distillation combining steady-state design and dynamic controllability. As the world continues to seek new sources of energy, the distillation process remains one of the most important separation methods in the chemical, petroleum, and energy industries. And, as new renewable sources of energy and chemical ...
The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research funded a multi-year project with several objectives: to build computer models that would allow comparisons to be made between humans and machines performing the same tasks - specifically, multiple task management and attention sharing within Air Traffic Control system; to see how ...
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