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There are many resources for getting more information on simulation. Some are provided below. Make special note of the World Wide Web pages, since they will point you to yet other locations of relevance:

• Electronic News Groups on USENET:
  • comp.simulation
  • sci.aeronautics.simulation
  • alt.materials.simulation

• Electronic Simulation Journal:
  • Computer Simulation Modeling and Analysis (CSMA)

• Books:
  • Ashby, W. Ross, ``An Introduction to Cybernetics," John Wiley and Sons, 1963.
  • Padulo, Louis and Arbib, Michael A., ``Systems Theory: A Unified State Space Approach to Continuous and Discrete Systems,'' W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1974.
  • Zeigler, Bernard P., ``Theory of Modelling and Simulation,'' John Wiley and Sons, 1976.
  • Law, Averill M. and Kelton, David W., ``Simulation Modeling and Analysis,'' McGraw Hill, 1991, Second Edition.
  • Çellier, Francois E., ``Continuous System Modeling," Springer Verlag, 1991.
  • Fishwick, Paul A. ``Simulation Model Design and Execution: Building Digital Worlds,'' Prentice Hall, 1995.

• Societies:
  • Society for Computer Simulation International (SCSI), San Diego, California.

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGSIM), New York, New York.

  • Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Computer Society TCSIM), New York, New York, IEEE Computer Society.

  • The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: INFORMS College on Simulation.
• Periodicals with a Simulation emphasis:
  • SCSI Simulation, SCSI Transactions on Simulation
  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
  • International Journal in Computer Simulation, Ablex
  • International Journal of General Systems, Gordon and Breach
  • Simulation Practice and Theory, Elsevier

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• Simulation-Specific Conferences (with greater than 200 attendees)
  • SCS Simulation Multiconference (held in April) Web: see the SCS home page under ``Societies.''
  • Winter Simulation Conference (WSC, held in December)

  • SCS European Multiconference (ESM)
  • European Simulation Conference (EUROSIM)

  • SCS European Simulation Conferences

• Recent Simulation Conferences with Online Web Proceedings:
  • 1994 AIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation Environments Conference)

  • ELECSIM Conference