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Bringing together an international group of researchers involved in military, business, and health modeling and simulation. Robinson, stewart school of business and economics. A framework for simulation conceptual modeling 73 stewart robinson. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. He is a fellow of the operational research society. Stewart robinson holds an honours degree in management science operational research 1985 and a phd in management science 1998, both from lancaster university. Research efforts have been proving that computer simulation is a useful decisionsupport tool for construction projects for more than four decades. Towards a conceptual modeling framework for construction. This book provides an approach to simulation projects which should enable existing simulation users to improve their effectiveness. A primer stewart robinson school of business and economics, loughborough university, uk 2. This book is aimed at both practitioners and academics. Simulation modelling involves the development of models that imitate.
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