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Discrete Event Models

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Here, we mention some basic concepts of Discrete event modeling and simulation, necessary to well understand the remarks included in the other chapters. A greater application of discrete event and agent-oriented model is discussed in Chap. 8 (simulation of growing organizations and their interactions).

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Raczynski, S. (2022). Discrete Event Models. In: Models for Research and Understanding. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11926-2_7

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