Course overview
This course is focused on equipping learners with simulation techniques to underpin decision making. Simulation is widely used to model systems, to evaluate risk, and to optimise objective functions, with the goal to inform decisions. Building up from uniform random generation, some of the key simulation techniques used for efficient simulation to support decision-making will be presented.
- Introductory Concepts
- Discrete-Event Simulation in Detail
- The Final Product
Course learning outcomes
- Communicate how randomness and controlled variation can be used to model complex systems in a range of application domains such as industry, health, and transportation.
- Create a model of a real-world problem specified in words and implement it as a discrete-event simulation.
- Collect data and test, verify and validate a simulation.
- Explore scenarios using simulation to elicit and compare possibilities.
- Design simulation-based workflows to support decision-making in real-world contexts and explain the process.
Fee calculator
To display course fees, please select your status and program below:
We’re updating this Fee Calculator. It currently shows fees for programs only. Please check the relevant program for full fee details.
Study Abroad student tuition fees are available here.
Only some Postgraduate Coursework programs are available as Commonwealth Supported. Please check your program for specific fee information.
The Student Contribution amount displayed below is for students commencing a new program from 2021 onwards. If you are continuing in a program you commenced prior to 1 January 2021, or are commencing an Honours degree relating to an undergraduate degree you commenced prior to 1 January 2021, you may be charged a different Student Contribution amount from the amount displayed below. Please check the Student Contribution bands for continuing students here. If you are an international student, or a domestic student studying in a full fee paying place, and are continuing study that you commenced in 2025 or earlier, your fees will be available here before enrolments open for 2026.