WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
Despite the potential, the use of simulation technology at US railroads appears to be lagging behind that in manufacturing and other transportation industries. This paper describe...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
This tutorial considers some very general procedures for analysing the results of a simulation experiment using bootstrap resampling. Bootstrapping has come to be recognised in st...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
This paper discusses implementation of a sequential procedure to construct proportional half-width confidence intervals for a simulation estimator of the steady-state quantiles an...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
This paper discusses the validity of using common random numbers (CRNs) with two-stage selection procedures to improve the possibility of correct selection and discusses the intri...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
This paper presents a method for simulating basic manufacturing operations (unload, load, process, move, and store) in a 3D virtual environment. The virtual environment provides a...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
This paper presents a simulation model of the operations in the Labor and Delivery Rooms at Jackson Memorial Hospital. A thorough analysis of the contents of hospital's datab...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
We address performance issues associated with simulationbased algorithms for optimizing Markov reward processes. Specifically, we are concerned with algorithms that exploit the re...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
We describe an extension procedure for constructing new standardized time series procedures from existing ones. The approach is based on averaging over sample paths obtained by pe...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
In this paper we present an algorithm for simulating functions of the minimum and terminal value for a random walk with Gaussian increments. These expectations arise in connection...