Guides

This selection of How-to guides will give a tour of some of the features that Ciw has to offer. It is organised by what part of the simulation is effected by the behaviour described.

Contents:

• Simulation
  • How to Set a Seed
  • How to Simulate For a Certain Amount of Time
  • How to Simulate For a Certain Number of Customers
  • How to Pause and Restart the Simulation
  • How to Collect Results
  • How to Implement a Progress Bar
  • How to Parallelise Trials
  • How to Implement Exact Arithmetic
• Distributions
  • How to Set Arrival & Service Distributions
  • How to Set Phase-Type Distributions
  • How to Combine Distributions
  • How to Define Time and State Dependent Distributions
• Arrivals
  • How to Set Batch Arrivals
• Queues
  • How to Set Maximium Queue Capacities
  • How to Set a Maximium Capacity for the Whole System
• Services
  • How to Change Service Discipline
  • How to Set Server Priorities
  • How to Set Server Schedules
  • How to Set Slotted Services
  • Pre-emptive Interruptions & Options for Resuming Service
  • How to Simulate Processor Sharing
• Routing
  • How to Define Routing with a Transition Matrix
  • How to Use Routing Objects
  • How to Set Join-Shortest-Queue Routing
  • How to Define Process-Based Routing
  • How to Define Custom Logical Routing
• Customer Behaviour
  • How to Simulate Baulking Customers
  • How to Simulate Reneging Customers
  • How to Simulate Jockeying Customers
• Customer Classes
  • How to Set Multiple Classes of Customer
  • How to Set Priority Classes
  • How to Change Customer Class After Service
  • How to Change Customer Class While Queueing
• System
  • How to Track the System’s State
  • How to Detect Deadlock
  • How to Get More Custom Behaviour