Business and human behavior modeling and simulation

The course will contains topics such as Basics in modeling; formal basis for models: mathematical; stochastic; computing models; constructing computer models; Types of computing models: performance, agent-model, organizational, social models; modeling tools; Data analysis; filters; Simulation tools/languages/environments; Simulation of experiments; Generation of random variables; estimation of parameters; experimental plan; optimization, simulator validation and verification.  Student will develop simulator to solve business problems to gain hands-on experience.