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What is System ¨ A system is a set of components which are related by some form of interaction and which act together to achieve some objective or purpose n Components are the individual parts or elements that collectively make up the system n Relationships are the cause-effect dependencies between components n Objective is the desired state or outcome which the system is attempting to achieve What is Simulation ¨ A simulation of a system is the operation of a model of the system, as an imitation of the real system ¨ A tool to evaluate the performance of a system, existing or proposed, under different configurations of interest and over a long period of time n e.g. a simulation of an industrial process to learn about its behavior under different operating conditions in order to improve the process n Reasons for Simulation ¨ Experiments on real systems are too expensive, too dangerous, or the system to be investigated does not yet exist n e.g. Investigating...