There has been much discussion about why agent-based simulation is not as widely used as discrete-event simulation in Operational Research as it is in neighbouring disciplines suc...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Charles M. Macal, Jeremy Garnet...
The traditional high-level algorithms for rigid body simulation work well for moderate numbers of bodies but scale poorly to systems of hundreds or more moving, interacting bodies...
Petroleum industry production systems are highly automatized. In this industry, all functions (e.g., planning, scheduling and maintenance) are automated and in order to remain comp...
Abstract. Extensive research has been carried out in search for an efcient atomic commit protocol and many optimizations have been suggested to improve the basic two-phase commit p...
George Samaras, George K. Kyrou, Panos K. Chrysant...
Lean manufacturing aims at flexible and efficient manufacturing systems by reducing waste in all forms, such as, production of defective parts, excess inventory, unnecessary proce...
Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Arnout Pool, Jakob Wijngaa...