Forty years of discrete-event simulation-a personal reflection

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1383-1399

  Hollocks, B W ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computers; History of OR; Microcomputers; Practice of OR; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; EXTRAPOLATION; MICROCOMPUTERS; PROCESS CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION; HISTORY OF OR; PRACTICE OF OR;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33751081004     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602128     Document Type: Article

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