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CAISE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Unified Foundational Ontology and some Applications of it in Business Modeling
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Fundamentals of simulation modeling
We start with basic terminology and concepts of modeling, and decompose the art of modeling as a process. This overview of the process helps clarify when we should or should not u...
Paul J. Sánchez
QUESTA
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
A note on stable flow-equivalent aggregation in closed networks
We introduce the Conditional Mean Value Analysis (CMVA) algorithm, an exact solution method for product-form load-dependent closed queueing networks that provides a numerically st...
Giuliano Casale
ACL
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
The implementation of collapsed Gibbs samplers for non-parametric Bayesian models is non-trivial, requiring considerable book-keeping. Goldwater et al. (2006a) presented an approx...
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater, Mark ...
WSC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Peeking Into the Black Box: Some Art and Science to Visualizing Agent-Based Models
This paper explores current metaphors for visualizing agent-based models. Metaphors include grid, network, ndimensional cubes and landscape visualization techniques. A final secti...
Stephen M. Guerin