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WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Simulating point processes by intensity projection
Point processes with stochastic intensities are ubiquitous in many application areas, including finance, insurance, reliability and queuing. They can be simulated from standard Po...
Kay Giesecke, Hossein Kakavand, Mohammad Mousavi
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation of unit loading device inventory in airline operations
Commercial airlines often encounter imbalances in their inventory of unit loading devices (ULDs). A stochastic simulation model was developed to evaluate inventory policies. The s...
Chatabush Roongrat, Jay M. Rosenberger, Brian Huff
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Linking ergonomics simulation to production process development
Production development can conflict with production ergonomics and management of environmental impacts. In this paper, we describe how ergonomics can be assessed in production sys...
Salla Lind, Boris Krassi, Juhani Viitaniemi, Sauli...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation-based optimization of a complex mail transportation network
The Swedish Postal Services receives and distributes over 22 million pieces of mail every day. Mail transportation takes place overnight by airplanes, trains, trucks, and cars in ...
Anna Syberfeldt, Henrik Grimm, Amos Ng, Martin And...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Accomplishing reuse with a simulation conceptual model
Osman Balci, James D. Arthur, Richard E. Nance
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A discrete event simulation model for reliability modeling of a chemical plant
This paper discusses a discrete event simulation model developed to identify and understand the impact of different failures on the overall production capabilities in a chemical p...
Bikram Sharda, Scott J. Bury
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A rate result for simulation optimization with conditional value-at-risk constraints
We study a stochastic optimization problem that has its roots in financial portfolio design. The problem has a specified deterministic objective function and constraints on the co...
Soumyadip Ghosh
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
New approaches for inference of unobservable queues
Many inference methods of queueing systems have been developed on the basis of Larson's QIE(queue inference engine) with the assumption of homogeneous Poisson arrivals. It in...
Yun Bae Kim, Jinsoo Park
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Practical approach to experimentation in a simulation study
Simulation study of complex production facilities can be a challenging task for manufacturing engineers as it requires skills to build the models and to conduct experiments. Accur...
Benny Tjahjono, Raul Fernandez