Innovative Progress in Simulation Languages and Applications of Simulation to Operations in Business

Abstract

System simulation has numerous applications, and plays an important role in operations management. The capability and sophistication of simulation languages have increased over the last half century. The recent progress of simulation languages from the process-oriented simulation to the object-oriented simulation is described. Then, applications of simulation to operations are introduced, presenting real examples. It is stressed that information technology is extremely important to enhancing the performance of simulation in terms of modeling and analysis.