This course is 2.5 days long. Here is a draft agenda, with scheduled times for presentations and group sessions. The schedule allows some flexibility in the amount of time spent working on and completing the tutorial exercises.

An email containing detailed information, including how to obtain the required files, will be sent to all registered attendees at least one week before the first day of the course. A hard copy of the training manual will also shipped to each registered attendee. Please be sure to provide the physical address to which you wish the manual be shipped when filling out the registration form.

Rulebased Simulation Modeling is a course for users who have a thorough understanding of pure simulation as covered in the Simulation course and wish to develop models that use rule logic for operational policies that drive the solution. It has been taught for over 20 years by the RiverWare research and development team. The course includes both lectures and self-guided tutorials.

This course teaches you the details of how rulebased simulation works and how to build a policy set. We spend considerable time on the solution methodologies used in rulebased simulation, which build heavily upon the solution methodologies of the simulation solution. You learn how to write rules using the RiverWare Policy Language, and we guide you through an interactive exercise converting written operations policy into a rule set. We show you how to analyze and debug the model runs and document and create reports about your model and policy set. Finally, we present advanced topics that provide additional functionality that may be useful in your modeling efforts.