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WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Modeling and analysis of semiconductor manufacturing in a shrinking world: Challenges and successes
A panel session on the role of modeling and analysis in semiconductor manufacturing in a shrinking world is presented. Therefore, two participants are from Asia, two from Europe, ...
Chen-Fu Chien, Stéphane Dauzère-P&ea...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
A comparative study of genetic algorithm components in simulation-based optimisation
In this paper, we present a comparative study of different stochastic components of genetic algorithms for simulationbased optimisation of the buffer allocation problem. We explor...
Birkan Can, Andreas Beham, Cathal Heavey
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Towards a flexible business process modeling and simulation environment
Business process is crucial to the success of any business. Business process modeling enables a common understanding and analysis of a business process, and simulation is an effec...
Changrui Ren, Wei Wang, Jin Dong, Hongwei Ding, Bi...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Simulation of stochastic hybrid systems with switching and reflecting boundaries
Modeling and simulation of biochemical systems are important tasks because they can provide insights into complicated systems where traditional experimentation is expensive or imp...
Derek Riley, Kasandra Riley
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
A distribution-free tabular CUSUM chart for correlated data with automated variance estimation
We formulate and evaluate distribution-free statistical process control (SPC) charts for monitoring an autocorrelated process when a training data set is used to estimate the marg...
Joongsup Lee, Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Simulation as a tool for life cycle cost analysis
Life cycle cost is an essential approach to decide on alternative rehabilitation strategies for infrastructure systems. Monte Carlo simulation approach is used to develop a stocha...
Khaled Shahata, Tarek Zayed
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Reducing the variance of likelihood ratio greeks in Monte Carlo
We investigate the use of Antithetic Variables, Control Variates and Importance Sampling to reduce the statistical errors of option sensitivities calculated with the Likelihood Ra...
Luca Capriotti
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Beta approximations for bridge sampling
Paul Glasserman, Kyoung-Kuk Kim
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Automating warm-up length estimation
There are two key issues in assuring the accuracy of estimates of performance obtained from a simulation model. The first is the removal of any initialisation bias, the second is ...
Kathryn Hoad, Stewart Robinson, Ruth Davies