=+9. Having discussed the modelling approaches of discrete simulation models using a general-purpose programming language, and reviewed the necessary techniques of probability and statistics such as probability distribution and random variable generation, the reader is now in a position to write his or her own discrete simulation models.

As a summary of the concepts and techniques learned in this chapter, use BASIC to write a three-phase simulation model to solve the problems composed in Example 5.4.

Compare your results with the theoretical solution provided. (Hint: The program should consist of a main program block which controls the overall execution of the simulation by initializing the model, advancing the simultion clock to the time of the next event, 'checking the simulation time so as to terminate the simulation process