J. Banks, J.S. Carson, B.L. Nelson, D.M. Nicol, Discrete-Event System Simulation 5th edition, Pearson, 2010.*
Allen B. Downey, Modeling and Simulation in Python, Needham, Mass: Green Tea Press, 2017, available free at https://greenteapress.com/wp/modsimpy/
L.W. Friedman. The Simulation Metamodel. Kluwer 1991.
F. Hillier, Introduction to Operations Research 10th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2015.
Averill M. Law, Simulation Modeling and Analysis 5e, McGraw-Hill, 2015.
Barry Nelson. Foundations and Methods of Stochastic Simulation: A First Course. Springer 2013.
Sheldon Ross. Simulation (Fifth Edition), Academic Press, 2013.
*About our textbook Banks et al. This assigned textbook is fairly old (2010) and they will not be publishing any newer editions. It is still the best book for our course for a variety of reasons. Here are some plusses and minuses:
+It won't cost you too much
+Used copies are fine for this class
+ It has the best coverage of DES theoretical topics I've seen
- We can only use it for theoretical topics; it doesn't really work well for modern practical implementation of DES simulations. Instead we will use other sources for simulation software. See the Software page for more.
You may also be interested in reading some of Prof. Friedman's related scholarly papers. See the Related Research page.