WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Point processes with stochastic intensities are ubiquitous in many application areas, including finance, insurance, reliability and queuing. They can be simulated from standard Po...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Commercial airlines often encounter imbalances in their inventory of unit loading devices (ULDs). A stochastic simulation model was developed to evaluate inventory policies. The s...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Production development can conflict with production ergonomics and management of environmental impacts. In this paper, we describe how ergonomics can be assessed in production sys...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
The Swedish Postal Services receives and distributes over 22 million pieces of mail every day. Mail transportation takes place overnight by airplanes, trains, trucks, and cars in ...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
This paper discusses a discrete event simulation model developed to identify and understand the impact of different failures on the overall production capabilities in a chemical p...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
We study a stochastic optimization problem that has its roots in financial portfolio design. The problem has a specified deterministic objective function and constraints on the co...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Many inference methods of queueing systems have been developed on the basis of Larson's QIE(queue inference engine) with the assumption of homogeneous Poisson arrivals. It in...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Simulation study of complex production facilities can be a challenging task for manufacturing engineers as it requires skills to build the models and to conduct experiments. Accur...