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WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation-Based Advanced WIP Management and Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing
We develop a hierarchical distributed production planning and control methodology, called DISCS, for a large and unstable semiconductor manufacturing process. The upper layer of D...
Kazuo Miyashita, Tsukasa Okazaki, Hirofumi Matsuo
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Fixing the Emergency Department: A Transformational Journey with EDsim
Hospitals today are investing time and money to expand and improve their Emergency Departments (ED). Using simulation to test their many improvement ideas can necessitate running ...
Martin J. Miller, David M. Ferrin, Marcia Messer
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
View From the Top: Military Challenges for the Simulation Community
The Department of Defense (DoD) has become increasingly reliant on models and in particular on simulation models. The military-defense establishment and its combat-preparation ori...
Gregory A. McIntyre, Raymond R. Hill
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Distributing a Large-Scale, Complex Fab Simulation Using HLA and Java: Issues and Lessons
Distributed simulation promises a range of benefits and opportunities, especially for modeling large-scale complex systems, such as wafer fabs. However, as with many promising tec...
Leon F. McGinnis
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Simulating Transportation Practices in Multi-Indenture Multi-echelon (MIME) Systems
Military supply chains encompass a complicated network of customers and suppliers, and deal with a wide variety of items. Demand inside the network is generated at the unit level ...
Joshua Burton McGee, Manuel D. Rossetti, Scott J. ...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Applying a Cognitive Architecture to Control of Virtual Non-Player Characters
CHI Systems, under contract to the U. S. Army Research Institute, is developing an immersive training system, called Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readines...
Chris McCollum, Charles Barba, Thomas Santarelli, ...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Better Selection of the Best
We present a new method of selecting the best of several competing system designs on the basis of expected steadystate performance. The method uses a new form of timeseries bootst...
Huaiyu Harry Ma, Thomas R. Willemain
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Fads and Fallacies in Asset Liability Management for Life Insurance
We shall examine the principles behind contemporary approaches to insurance risk management. Furthermore, we shall consider various methodologies, some successful, that have been ...
Graham Lord
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Temporal Uncertainty in Process-Oriented Distributed Simulations
Existing research has defined a new type of simulation time called Approximate Time, where the simulation's knowledge about the values that represent time is uncertain. The a...
Margaret L. Loper, Richard M. Fujimoto
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Easy-SC: A Supply Chain Simulation Tool
To assist the decision makers, we develop a new supply chain simulation software: Easy-SC, a Java-based tool that simplifies the supply chain simulation. In its current state of d...
Juqi Liu, Wei Wang, Yueting Chai, Yi Liu