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WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Case study in modeling and simulation validation methodology
The military develops simulations to analyze nearly every aspect of defense. How accurate are these simulations and to what extent do they produce dependable results? Most guidanc...
Scott D. Simpkins, Eugene P. Paulo, Lyn R. Whitake...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Monte Carlo simulation approach to stochastic programming
Various stochastic programmingproblemscan be formulated as problems of optimization of an expected value function. Quite often the corresponding expectation function cannot be com...
Alexander Shapiro
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Deterministic fluid models of congestion control in high-speed networks
Congestion control algorithms, such as TCP or the closelyrelated additive increase-multiplicative decrease algorithms, are extremely difficult to simulate on a large scale. The re...
Sanjay Shakkottai, R. Srikant
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Pricing of Barrier Options with the Variance-Gamma Model
We develop an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for pricing barrier options with the variance gamma model (Madan, Carr, and Chang 1998). After generalizing the double-gamma bridge s...
Athanassios N. Avramidis
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Spreadsheet simulation
"Spreadsheet simulation" refers to the use of a spreadsheet as a platform for representing simulation models and performing simulation experiments. This tutorial explain...
Andrew F. Seila
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Meta-Heuristic Based on Simulated Annealing for Solving Multiple-Objective Problems in Simulation Optimization
This paper presents a new meta heuristic algorithm based on the search method called simulated annealing, and its application to solving multi objective simulation optimization pr...
Eduardo Alberto Avello, Felipe F. Baesler, Reinald...
WSC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation of a night taxi-bus service for the historical center of Rome
The Municipality of Rome plans to introduce a taxi-bus system as a night service. A micro-simulation model was developed to estimate the needed information. Two major topics regar...
Thomas Schulze, Marco Lemessi, Francesco Filippi
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Coordination in a Supply Chain for Bulk Chemicals
A chemical plant in The Netherlands uses large annual supplies of a bulk chemical. A number of suppliers deliver their parcels from overseas by short sea vessel to a transshipment...
Henk de Swaan Arons, Eelco van Asperen, Rommert De...
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Assessing Obstacle Location Accuracy in the Remus Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
Navy personnel use the REMUS unmanned underwater vehicle to search for submerged objects. Navigation inaccuracies lead to errors in predicting the location of objects and thus inc...
Timothy E. Allen, Arnold H. Buss, Susan M. Sanchez