Talk:Discrete-event simulation

message: I'm removing the commecial text at the bottom of the article, it does not belong there.
--Robbins 04:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A number of mechanisms have been proposed for carrying out discrete event simulation, among them are the event-based, activity-based, process-based and three-phase approaches (Pidd, 1998).
I suggest adding short descriptions of the event-based, activity-based, process-based and three-phase approaches.  If I had a good reference for this I would do it myself.  Does anyone know this off the top of their head?
Bezenek (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

text: A more recent method is the three-phased approach to discrete event simulation (Pidd, 1998).
The three-phase approach is not at all recent and was not proposed by Mike Pidd (although he has written about it in some detail). It was first suggested by Keith Tocher - the implementer of the first DES software, General Simulation Program (GSP) - in his 1963 book, "The Art of Simulation", and is therefore one of the earliest approaches to computerized DES. It was adopted in a number of commercial DES software packages by at the latest the mid 1980's.
Facsimiler (Talk) 16:25, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing corporate commercial 

message: This is from the article:
:A number of mechanisms have been proposed for carrying out discrete event simulation, among them are the event-based, activity-based, process-based and three-phase approaches (Pidd, 1998).
I suggest adding short descriptions of the event-based, activity-based, process-based and three-phase approaches.  If I had a good reference for this I would do it myself.  Does anyone know this off the top of their head?
Bezenek (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested addition to article 

message: :A more recent method is the three-phased approach to discrete event simulation (Pidd, 1998).
The three-phase approach is not at all recent and was not proposed by Mike Pidd (although he has written about it in some detail). It was first suggested by Keith Tocher - the implementer of the first DES software, General Simulation Program (GSP) - in his 1963 book, "The Art of Simulation", and is therefore one of the earliest approaches to computerized DES. It was adopted in a number of commercial DES software packages by at the latest the mid 1980's.
Facsimiler (Talk) 16:25, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Three-Phased Approach 

message: The second paragraph of this article has certain nouns in upper-case, such as "CUSTOMER-ARRIVAL", "TELLER-BEGINS-SERVICE", and "NUMBER-OF-CUSTOMERS-IN-THE-QUEUE"; it tends to be quite annoying and corrupts a paragraph that sounds like it has real value. Hellochar (talk) 18:50, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uppercase-happy paragraph 

message: The lead should be a summary of the article; it should therefore not describe any examples (although it may list or refer to them).  This lead section does not give a clear description of what a discrete event simulation actually is.  Busy now, but will come back and rewrite this when time permits, if no one else has beaten me to it. BrianTung (talk) 19:05, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section is too detailed 

message: I have added DES as the common abbreviation. Although I do not think it is neccessary to provide a reference for that in the article itself, this can be verified by searching e.g. on Google Scholar. Alkarex (talk) 11:13, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added DES as the common abbreviation 

message: DES is now widely applied in health economics for the purpose of economic evaluation. The page would benefit from a section relating to this.
ChrisSampson87 (talk) 09:24, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health Economics 

message: Hello
The first sentence should be re-written as "as a sequence of discrete events in time" because "discrete" modifies "event" not the "sequence".
Thanks
Arthur.Goldberg (talk) 20:23, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improve the first sentence 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Future event list and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 2#Future event list until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  signed, Rosguill talk 01:52, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Future event list" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]