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WSC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Control Variates
Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are specialized Monte Carlo simulation techniques where the methods are adaptively tuned as the simulation progresses. The primary focus of such techn...
Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson
MANSCI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing Call Center Staffing Using Simulation and Analytic Center Cutting-Plane Methods
We consider the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicat...
Júlíus Atlason, Marina A. Epelman, S...
WSC
1998
13 years 10 months ago
LABATCH.2: Software for Statistical Analysis of Simulation Sample Path Data
LABATCH.2 is a collection of computer programs available in C, FORTRAN, and SIMSCRIPT II.5 by anonymous ftp, at http://www.or.unc.edu/gfish/labatch.2.html. It performs statistical...
George S. Fishman
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
A stochastic programming approach to scheduling in TAC SCM
In this paper, we combine two approaches to handling uncertainty: we use techniques for finding optimal solutions in the expected sense to solve combinatorial optimization proble...
Michael Benisch, Amy R. Greenwald, Victor Narodits...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mixed Discrete and Continuous Algorithms for Scheduling Airborne Astronomy Observations
We describe the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne telescope. The problem requires maximizing the nu...
Jeremy Frank, Elif Kürklü