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WSC
2004
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Simulation Model of the Telemedicine Program
The Telemedicine Program was created to provide medical assistance to people living in extreme poverty conditions in Mexico. Through a satellite connection, a physician located in...
Juan Mauricio Lach, Ricardo Manuel Vázquez
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Total System Approach to the Simulation of Complex Environmental Systems
GoldSim is a powerful and flexible Windows-based computer program for carrying out probabilistic simulations of complex systems to support management and decisionmaking in enginee...
Rick Kossik, Ian Miller
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Finance
We review the basic principles of Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the randomizations that turn them into variancereduction techniques, and the main classes of constructions under...
Pierre L'Ecuyer
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
New Event-driven Sampling Techniques for Network Reliability Estimation
Exactly computing network reliability measures is an NPhard problem. Therefore, Monte Carlo simulation has been frequently used by network designers to obtain accurate estimates. ...
Abdullah Konak, Alice E. Smith, Sadan Kulturel-Kon...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
The Use of Simulation to Support Major Transportation Planning Decisions
When major transportation infrastructures such as freight corridors or port systems are being planned, there are typically multiple phases of preliminary engineering required. Dur...
Beth C. Kulick
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Capacity Analysis of Automated Material Handling Systems in Semiconductor Fabs
A critical aspect of semiconductor manufacturing is the design and analysis of material handling and production control polices to optimize fab performance. As wafer sizes have in...
Michael E. Kuhl, Julie Christopher
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A View From the Beginning: When Does a Description Become a Taxonomy
This paper describes the author's career leading up to the publication of his 1969 paper Digital Computer Simulation: Computer Programming Languages, how it influenced the pa...
Philip J. Kiviat
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A BGP Attack Against Traffic Engineering
As the Internet grows, traffic engineering has become a widely-used technique to control the flow of packets. For the inter-domain routing, traffic engineering relies on configura...
Jintae Kim, Steven Y. Ko, David M. Nicol, Xenofont...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Control Variates
Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are specialized Monte Carlo simulation techniques where the methods are adaptively tuned as the simulation progresses. The primary focus of such techn...
Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson