CONTENTS: Preliminary remarks; Brownian motion, poisson process, alpha-stable Levy motion; Computer simulation of alpha-stable random variables; Stochastic integration; Spectral representations of stationary processes; Computer approximations of continuous time processes; Examples of alpha-stable stochastic modelling; Convergence of approximate methods; Chaotic behaviour of stationary processes; Hierarchy of chaos for stable and ID stationary processes. Appendix - A guide to simulation.