WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
A problem in health care is the lengthy waiting time for patients to receive an appointment. Long appointment delays cause patient dissatisfaction with the health care clinic and ...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
Warehouse or distribution centre managers have to decide how to collect the products to fulfill customers requests but also where to locate the products (SKUs) and how much space ...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
The what-if analysis process is essential in symbiotic simulation systems. It is responsible for creating a number of alternative what-if scenarios and evaluating their performanc...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
Agent-based simulation is increasingly used to study systems in many areas of business and science. Using agentbased simulation for prediction could be very valuable. However, the...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
In this paper, the impact of timing a setup operation on the work-in-process and cycle time is investigated. Using a small example of an reentrant production system, it is shown t...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
This article deals with an approach for managing scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The proposed approach ensures consistency between global and local schedulin...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Pricing and lead time setting are two important decisions in semiconductor foundry industries. This research considers the competition of a duopoly market consisting of two make-t...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
Network reduction techniques are mainly used with exact approaches such as factoring to compute network reliability. However, exact computation of network reliability is feasible ...
WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
We use computer simulation to study the performance of alternative real-time delay estimators in heavily loaded multiserver queueing models. These delay estimates may be used to m...
WSC
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
Effective use of machines and headcounts is essential in manufacturing for high return of investment from expensive resources in today’s competitive business environment. It is ...