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WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing production work flow using OpEMCSS
A graphical discrete event simulation library is proposed for system simulation that is based on interacting concurrent processes. This library works with EXTEND (Imagine That Inc...
John R. Clymer
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Venture launch: use of simulation to support strategic operational decisions
This paper describes how discrete-event simulation enhanced a traditional process design effort for a new media company in pre-launch mode. Because the company's business mod...
Gregory R. Clay
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
On simulation model complexity
Nowadays the size and complexity of models is growing more and more, forcing modelers to face some problems that they were not accustomed to. Before trying to study ways to deal w...
Leonardo Chwif, Marcos Ribeiro Pereira Barretto, R...
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
New results on procedures that select the best system using CRN
One use of simulation is to inform decision makers that seek to select the best of several alternative systems. The system with the highest (or lowest) mean value for simulation o...
Stephen E. Chick, Koichiro Inoue
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling road traffic on airport premises
This paper describes the development of a traffic-modeling tool as an Arena template and two applications of it: one to evaluate alternative designs for the road network on the pr...
Marco C. van Burgsteden, Paul E. Joustra, Michiel ...
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Using agent-based modeling to capture airpower strategic effects
Airpower's strength lies in quickly striking the enemy directly where they are vulnerable while being unhampered by geography and surface forces. Airpower theory suggests the...
Richard K. Bullock, Gregory A. McIntyre, Raymond R...
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation as educational support for production and logistics in industrial engineering
The proposed implementation is a monitor system able to train operators for on-line real time manufacturing control in order to analyze the performance of a production process. Th...
Agostino G. Bruzzone, Pietro Giribone, Roberto Rev...
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation in a box: a generic reusable maintenance model
Simulation models can be time-consuming to build and often multiple models are built to simulate similar systems that have small differences. While developing a model to evaluate ...
Nancy Brown, Steve Powers
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
A simulation test-bed to evaluate multi-agent control of manufacturing systems
Current research in the area of manufacturing planning and control has moved away from traditional centralized solutions towards distributed architectures that range from hierarch...
Robert W. Brennan, William O