Ongoing global changes bring fundamentally new scientific problems requiring new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge our traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. The uncertainty critically...

Why Do We Simulate? -- Simulation Programming: Quick Start -- Examples -- Simulation Programming with VBASim -- Two Views of Simulation -- Simulation Input -- Simulation Output -- Experiment Design and Analysis -- Simulation for Research -- VBASim

The Handbook of Simulation Optimization presents an overview of the state of the art of simulation optimization, providing a survey of the most well-established approaches for optimizing stochastic simulation models and a sampling of recent research advances in theory and methodology. Leading...