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WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
The expanding role of simulation in future manufacturing
Simulation technology holds tremendous promise for reducing costs, improving quality, and shortening the timeto-market for manufactured goods. Unfortunately, this technology still...
Charles R. McLean, Swee Leong
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Implementation of response surface methodology using variance reduction techniques in semiconductor manufacturing
Semiconductor manufacturing is generally considered a cyclic industry. As such, individual producers able to react quickly and appropriately to market conditions will have a compe...
Charles D. McAllister, Bertan Altuntas, Matthew Fr...
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
An agent architecture for implementing command and control in military simulations
In models of military operations it is important to include the Command and Control (C2) process in order to achieve a realistic simulation of a military force's behaviour an...
Colin R. Mason, James Moffat
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
On the use of fuzzy clustering in construction simulation
This paper presents a methodology that integrates fuzzy clustering and computer simulation and demonstrates its use in modeling earthmoving operations. A simulation system (SimEar...
Mohamed Marzouk, Osama Moselhi
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Global random optimization by simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation
We examine the theoretical and numerical global convergence properties of a certain "gradient free" stochastic approximation algorithm called the "simultaneous pertu...
John L. Maryak, Daniel C. Chin
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
EZStrobe: general-purpose simulation system based on activity cycle diagrams
This paper introduces EZStrobe, a very simple but powerful general-purpose simulation system. Although designed for modeling construction operations, EZStrobe is domain independen...
Julio C. Martínez
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
A simulation of the mission crew workload in a multi mission aircraft
The increased tasking and reduced manning of a multi mission aircraft put pressures on the mission-crew in terms of their workload, mixture of skill and the training required. Thi...
Phillip Martin, Christopher Watson, Andy Skinner
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
On the impact of concurrent downloads
Concurrent downloads accelerate information access speed for individual web users. The speed-up comes from multiple connections launched for one subject download, which leads to u...
Yong Liu, Weibo Gong, Prashant J. Shenoy
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Reducing input parameter uncertainty for simulations
Parameters of statistical distributions that are input to simulations are typically not known with certainty. For existing systems, or variations on existing systems, they are oft...
Szu Hui Ng, Stephen E. Chick
WSC
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Dispatching heuristic for wafer fabrication
As the semiconductor industry moves into the next millennium, companies increasingly will be faced with production obstacles that impede their ability to remain competitive. Effec...
Loo Hay Lee, Loon Ching Tang, Soon Chee Chan