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WSC
2004
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Simulation of an Airport Passenger Security System
As part of the new security environment at the nation's airports, discrete event simulation modeling was applied shortly after 9-11 to understand the operational dynamics of ...
David R. Pendergraft, Craig V. Robertson, Shelly S...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Simulating Growth Dynamics in Complex Adaptive Supply Networks
This paper discusses an extended adaptive supply network simulation model that explicitly captures growth (in terms of change in size over time, and birth and death) based on Utte...
Surya Dev Pathak, David M. Dilts, Gautam Biswas
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Retrospective Approximation Algorithms for the Multidimensional Stochastic Root-Finding Problem
The stochastic root-finding problem (SRFP) is that of solving a system of q equations in q unknowns using only an oracle that provides estimates of the function values. This paper...
Raghu Pasupathy, Bruce W. Schmeiser
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of Production Run Length on Supply Chain Performance
This paper documents an experiment designed to show the value of simulation in understanding the relationship between production run lengths and overall supply chain performance. ...
David J. Parsons, Robin J. Clark, Kevin L. Payette
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Enabling a Transforming Army at War: Analysis to Improve Logistics Network Efficiency and Effectiveness
This paper introduces and summarizes a comprehensive systems approach guiding an ongoing project addressing these significant challenges confronting logistics transformation. Curr...
Greg H. Parlier
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Stochastic On-Line Model for Shipment Date Quoting with On-Time Delivery Guarantees
The paper introduces a new model for shipment date quoting with potential applications in E-commerce. First, a customer sends to the vendor a request for an item advertised at a c...
Yunpeng Pan, Leyuan Shi
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Characterizations and Relationships of World Views
We describe a characterization the three classical world views of event scheduling, activity scanning, and process interaction and discuss transformations among them. We believe t...
C. Michael Overstreet, Richard E. Nance
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Behavioral Anticipation in Agent Simulation
In this article, the following is done: (1) a systematic and comprehensive classification of input is given and the relevance of perception as an important type of input in intell...
Tuncer I. Ören, Levent Yilmaz
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Stream Option Manager
Stream Option Manager (SOM) is a set of mathematical tools developed at The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD). While still under dev...
William P. Niedringhaus, Michael J. White, Patrick...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Automated Response Surface Methodology for Stochastic Optimization Models with Unknown Variance
Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is an optimization tool that was introduced in the early 50
Robin P. Nicolai, Rommert Dekker, Nanda Piersma, G...