{"id":4578,"date":"2017-04-10T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/meetings2-2\/?page_id=4578"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:18:38","slug":"sim-101-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/wsc2022\/sim-101-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM 101 Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4578\" data-postid=\"4578\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4578 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_6m7k851 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_sxrz853 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_uc5l61   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Sunday, December 11<br \/>\nTime TBD<\/h2>\n<p>This workshop will be held virtually. Both In-person and Virtual Attendees may register. In-person attendees will participate on their own from their guest room.<\/p>\n<p><b>Additional Fee Required: $25<\/b><br \/>\nSign up when you register for the meeting.<\/p>\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>This workshop, designed for newcomers will cover Monte Carlo and discrete-event simulation. Participants will run and modify existing simulation programs downloaded prior to the workshop. An R package named simEd will be used in the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Ideas in Simulation<\/li>\n<li>Monte Carlo Simulation<\/li>\n<li>A Single-Server Queue<\/li>\n<li>Statistics in Simulation<\/li>\n<li>Next-Event Simulation<\/li>\n<li>Discrete Random Variables<\/li>\n<li>Continuous Random Variables<\/li>\n<li>Output Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Input Modeling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who Should Attend?<\/h3>\n<p>The target audience for the workshop consists of managers, computer scientists, and engineers with little or no familiarity with probability, statistics, and simulation.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Should You Attend?<\/h3>\n<p>Attending the workshop will help newcomers to simulation assimilate the technical sessions presented at the Winter Simulation Conference. Due to the limited time for the workshop, it will be very light on theory and general notions, but heavy on intuition associated with simulation. This will be accomplished by running through the conceptual, algorithmic, and implementation portions of the development of several simple Monte Carlo and discrete-event simulation models.<\/p>\n<h2>Workshop Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Module 0: Great Ideas in Simulation<br \/>\nModule 1: Monte Carlo Simulation<br \/>\nModule 2: Introduction to Modeling &#8211; Queueing<br \/>\nModule 3: Input Modeling<br \/>\nModule 4: Random Number Generation &amp; Random Variate Generation<br \/>\nModule 5: Next-Event Simulation<br \/>\nModule 6: Analyzing Simulation Output<\/p>\n<h2>Presenters<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:blawson@bates.edu\">Barry Lawson<\/a>, Colony Family Professor of Digital &amp; Computational Studies, Bates College<br \/>\nBarry Lawson is a faculty member in the Program of Digital &amp; Computational Studies at Bates College. 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