WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Building a simulation model for any large complex system requires high expertise and effort. These requirements can be reduced through building generic simulation capability that ...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
A complex, stochastic simulation model of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is examined through factor screening to determine which factors in the model are important. The factor screening ...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
In utilizing the technique of stratification, the user needs to first partition/stratify the sample space; the next task is to determine how to allocate samples to strata. How to ...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
We present the basic concepts of experimental design, the types of goals it can address, and why it is such an important and useful tool for simulation. A well-designed experiment...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
In the past decade there has been an explosion in the use of system dynamics modeling in healthcare. Despite this, the approach is still far less well known than discreteevent sim...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
Simulation optimization (SO) is the process of finding the optimum design of a system whose performance measure(s) are estimated via simulation. We propose some ideas to improve o...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
We describe the analysis of a discrete event simulation model of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV disease, parameterized to describe the dual epidemics in Harare, Zimbabwe. The HIV epide...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Our focus is on efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by corre...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
On May 4, 1988 a fire occurred after hours on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Bank building, a 62 story steelframe office tower in Los Angeles California. The sprinkler sys...