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WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A simulation study of interventions to reduce appointment lead-time and patient no-show rate
A problem in health care is the lengthy waiting time for patients to receive an appointment. Long appointment delays cause patient dissatisfaction with the health care clinic and ...
Ronald E. Giachetti
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A simulation model to improve warehouse operations
Warehouse or distribution centre managers have to decide how to collect the products to fulfill customers requests but also where to locate the products (SKUs) and how much space ...
Jean Philippe Gagliardi, Jacques Renaud, Angel Rui...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Preventive what-if analysis in symbiotic simulation
The what-if analysis process is essential in symbiotic simulation systems. It is responsible for creating a number of alternative what-if scenarios and evaluating their performanc...
Heiko Aydt, Stephen John Turner, Wentong Cai, Malc...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
The range of predictions for calibrated agent-based simulation models
Agent-based simulation is increasingly used to study systems in many areas of business and science. Using agentbased simulation for prediction could be very valuable. However, the...
DongFang Shi, Roger J. Brooks
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Decision making and forecasting with respect to risk: A simulation study for a setup-problem
In this paper, the impact of timing a setup operation on the work-in-process and cycle time is investigated. Using a small example of an reentrant production system, it is shown t...
Martin Romauch, Walter Laure, Georg Seidel, Christ...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation results and formalism for global-local scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing facilities
This article deals with an approach for managing scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The proposed approach ensures consistency between global and local schedulin...
Mickaël Bureau, Stéphane Dauzèr...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Pricing decision and lead time setting in a duopoly semiconductor industry
Pricing and lead time setting are two important decisions in semiconductor foundry industries. This research considers the competition of a duopoly market consisting of two make-t...
I-Hsuan Hong, Hsi-Mei Hsu, Yi-Mu Wu, Chun-Shao Yeh
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Combining network reductions and simulation to estimate network reliability
Network reduction techniques are mainly used with exact approaches such as factoring to compute network reliability. However, exact computation of network reliability is feasible ...
Abdullah Konak
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
REal-time delay estimation in call centers
We use computer simulation to study the performance of alternative real-time delay estimators in heavily loaded multiserver queueing models. These delay estimates may be used to m...
Rouba Ibrahim, Ward Whitt
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Establishing man-machine ratio using simulation
Effective use of machines and headcounts is essential in manufacturing for high return of investment from expensive resources in today’s competitive business environment. It is ...
Hoay Hoon Ong