Parallel discrete-event simulation (PDES), simply referred to as parallel simulation, is concerned with the execution of discrete-event simulation on parallel computers. PDES has been recognized as a challenging research field bridging between modeling and simulation, and high-performance computing. By exploiting the potential parallelism in a simulation model, PDES can overcome the limitations...

The event-scheduling view of the discrete-event simulation technique is widely used to model and simulate dynamic systems. This paper presents DMOD, a formalization of this technique. It ooers two main advantages. First, it retains the powerful intuitions behind this technique yet makes it easier to use them. In particular, it proposes a new method for logically specifying event preemption. Sec...

Discrete-event simulation based optimization is the process of finding the optimum design of a stochastic system when the performance measure(s) could only be estimated via simulation. Randomness in simulation outputs often challenges the correct selection of the optimum. We propose an algorithm that merges Ranking and Selection procedures with a large class of random search methods for continu...