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WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Building composable bridges between the conceptual space and the implementation space
Often the process and effort in building interoperable Command and Control (C2) systems and simulations can be arduous. Invariably the difficulty is in understanding what is inten...
Paul Gustavson, Tram Chase
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Reusable tool for 300mm intrabay AMHS modeling and simulation
The transition to 300mm wafer size introduced a lot of new technologies to wafer fabrication facilities that mandated the presence of intrabay automated material handling systems ...
Ahmed El-Nashar, Khaled S. El-Kilany
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Combining micro and macro-modeling in DEVS for computational biology
In computational biology there is an increasing need to combine micro and macro views of the system of interest. Therefore, explicit means to describe micro and macro level and th...
Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Roland Ewald, Mathias John,...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Bayesian approach to analysis of limit standards
Limit standards are probabilistic requirements or benchmarks regarding the proportion of replications conforming or not conforming to a desired threshold. Sample proportions resul...
Roy R. Creasey Jr., K. Preston White Jr.
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
IFAO-SIMO: a spatial-simulation based facility network optimization framework
This paper describes an innovative framework, iFAOSimo, which integrates optimization, simulation and GIS (geographic information system) techniques to handle complex spatial faci...
Ming Xie, Wei Wang, Wen Jun Yin, Jin Dong
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling and simulation of retrieving process
This paper presents a model of Parts Distribution Center (PDC), developed in Arena® 5.0, which aims at providing information about the total time of the retrieving process as the...
Shih Y. Chin, José H. C. G. Júnior
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
What I wish they would have taught me (or that I would have better remembered!) in school
This panel reflects upon their experiences as simulation professionals and shares their thoughts regarding elements of their simulation education that they have found most helpful...
Charles R. Standridge, Daniel A. Finke, Carley Jur...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Communication and process simulation of set-based design for concrete reinforcement
Two discrete-event simulations are developed to assess the feasibility of improving the delivery process of reinforced concrete structures. The simulations represent the resource ...
John-Michael Wong, Kristen Parrish, Iris D. Tommel...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Extension of the direct optimization algorithm for noisy functions
DIRECT (DIviding RECTangles) is a deterministic global optimization algorithm for bound-constrained problems. The algorithm, based on a space-partitioning scheme, performs both gl...
Geng Deng, Michael C. Ferris
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Qualitative simulation of construction performance using fuzzy cognitive maps
The construction process is subject to an array of influences, both from internal and external environments, which makes the process performance uncertain and difficult to predict...
Manjula Dissanayake, Simaan M. AbouRizk