A HISTORY OF SIMULATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Discrete-event simulation first emerged in the late 1950s and steadily grew in popularity to become the most frequently used of the classical Operational Research techniques across a range of industries and users. The leading advances in the evolution of discrete-event simulation software came from the United Kingdom and the USA and the author was engaged for some 30 years with its development and use. The paper reviews that history as a first-hand account, specifically in the United Kingdom and focusing on the period to 1994.

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