Book Reviews : Simulation of Waiting-line Systems Susan L. Solomon Publisher: Prentice Hall,Inc.,Englewood Cliffs,NJ 07632 Date: 1983 Materials: Hardbound book,452 pp. Price: $32 Machine Specificity: General,but references GPSS,which runs on IBM compatibles and mainframes;also a thirty-six-page mainframe FORTRAN listing is provided for an accompanying statistical package,SIMSTAT. Intended Audience: Beginning management science students,particularly those using GPSS,the General Purpose Simulation System,reviewed in this issue's software review section. Usefulness: High Clarity: Good Difficulty: Intermediate

Abstract

An excellent introduction to GPSS, which is systematically treated in chapters five through seven.