Guides

This selection of How-to guides will give a tour of some of the features that Ciw has to offer.

Contents:

• How to Set a Seed
• How to Implement a Progress Bar
• How to Implement Exact Arithmetic
• How to Simulate For a Certain Number of Customers
• How to Pause and Restart the Simulation
• How to Set Arrival & Service Distributions
  • Custom Distributions
  • Combined Distributions
• How to Set Phase-Type Distributions
  • Erlang Distributions
  • HyperExponential Distributions
  • HyperErlang Distributions
  • Coxian Distributions
• How to Define Time and State Dependent Distributions
  • Time Dependent Distributions
  • The Problem of Sampling Arrivals Across Thresholds
  • State Dependent Distributions
• How to Simulate Processor Sharing
  • Limited Process Sharing
  • Capacitated Process Sharing
• How to Set Priority Classes
  • Pre-emption
• How to Set Batch Arrivals
  • How to Set Time Dependent Batches
• How to Simulate Baulking Customers
• How to Simulate Reneging Customers
  • Reneging Locations
• How to Set Server Schedules
  • Pre-emption
  • Overtime
• How to Set Server Priorities
  • Prioritising Using the Individual
  • Important Notice
• How to Set Dynamic Customer Classes
• How to Track the System’s State
• How to Detect Deadlock
• How to Define Process-Based Routing
  • Important Notice
  • Further example
• How to Read & Write to/from File
  • Parameter Files
  • Exporting Results
• How to Get More Custom Behaviour
  • Library of Examples
• How to Parallelise Trials