No simulation is useful if you can’t read the results. Great notes include slides on:
On Screen: A word problem: "A coffee shop has 1 barista. Customers arrive every 3 minutes (exponential). Service takes 2.5 minutes (normal, stdev 0.5). Simulate 8 hours. Find: (a) Average queue length, (b) Barista utilization, (c) Probability of waiting > 5 min." modeling and simulation lecture notes ppt top
Speaker Notes (Page 13): "This is your take-home exam. If you do this in Excel, you will fail. If you forget the random distribution, you will fail. If you don't replicate it 30 times, you will get a C. But if you build a discrete event model, track entities, collect statistics, and present a confidence interval... you will pass. More importantly, you will never stand in a coffee line again without seeing a simulation in your head." No simulation is useful if you can’t read the results