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WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Maximizing hospital finanacial impact and emergency department throughput with simulation
Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital (Tucson, Arizona), the Ascension Health Operations Resource Group and FDI Simulation team worked collaboratively to improve hospital flow and incr...
David M. Ferrin, Marty J. Miller, Diana L. McBroom
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Clinic: correlated inputs in an automotive paint shop fire risk simulation
General Motors (GM) has developed a first proof-ofconcept simulation model to explore impacts of various fire events in automotive paint shop operations. The approach uses a chron...
Debra A. Elkins, A. Christine LaFleur, Earnest Fos...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
An introduction to IBM General Business Simulation Environment
Wei Wang, Jin Dong, Hongwei Ding, Changrui Ren, Mi...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Simulation of adaptive project management analytics
Typically, IT projects are delivered over-budget and behind schedule. In this paper, we explore the effects of common project management practices that contribute to these problem...
Léa Amandine Deleris, Sugato Bagchi, Shubir...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Calculating float in linear schedules with singularity functions
This paper presents an exact approach of calculating float for each activity in linear schedules. It is based on singularity functions, which have been used previously to determin...
Gunnar Lucko, Angel A. Pena Orozco
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Hospital capacity planning for efficient disaster mitigation during a bioterrorist attack
Effective hospital capacity planning can not only significantly enhance the capability and effectiveness of the treatment provided to patients during a bioterrorist attack but can...
Jomon Aliyas Paul, Govind Hariharan
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Comparing designs for computer simulation experiments
The use of simulation as a modeling and analysis tool is wide spread. Simulation is an enabling tool for experimenting virtually on a validated computer environment. Often the und...
Rachel T. Johnson, Bradley Jones, John W. Fowler, ...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Agent-based modeling and simulation of wildland fire suppression
Simulation of wildland fire suppression is useful to evaluate deployment plans of firefighting resources and to experiment different fire suppression strategies and tactics. Previ...
Xiaolin Hu, Yi Sun
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
A discrete event simulation model for examining future sustainability of Canadian Forces operations
This paper presents a proof-of-concept discrete-event simulation model for examining the ability of the Canadian Forces (CF) to sustain operations, from a human resources perspect...
Patricia Moorhead, Andrew Wind, Mira Halbrohr