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WSC
2008
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Distributed agent-based simulation of construction projects with HLA
Simulation techniques can provide a resource-driven schedule and answer many hypothetical scenarios before project execution to improve on conventional project management software...
Hosein Taghaddos, Simaan M. AbouRizk, Yasser Moham...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Concurrent simulation and optimization models for mining planning
One of the most important challenges for mining engineers is to correctly analyze and generate short-term planning schedules, or simply month mining plan. The objective is to demo...
Marcelo Moretti Fioroni, Luiz Augusto Gago Franzes...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation-based optimization for the quay crane scheduling problem
Maritime terminals of pure transhipment are emerging logistic realities in long-distance containerized trade. Here, complex activities of resource allocation and scheduling should...
Pasquale Legato, Rina Mary Mazza, Roberto Trunfio
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
The improved sweep metaheuristic for simulation optimization and application to job shop scheduling
We present an improved sweep metaheuristic for discrete event simulation optimization. The sweep algorithm is a tree search similar to beam search. The basic idea is to run a limi...
George Jiri Mejtsky
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Control variate technique: A constructive approach
The technique of control variates requires that the user identify a set of variates that are correlated with the estimation variable and whose means are known to the user. We rela...
Tarik Borogovac, Pirooz Vakili
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Metodology for selecting the best suitable bottleneck detection method
Focusing on process constraints (or bottlenecks) is how companies are improving productivity, decreasing response times. However, a bottleneck is not easily detectable, especially...
Eliseu Lima, Leonardo Chwif, Marcos Ribeiro, Perei...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
In search of the memoryless property
This paper describes a distribution fitting exercise that has been used in an undergraduate introductory simulation class. The intent is for students to collect data describing a ...
Timothy S. Vaughan
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Implementable MSE-optimal dynamic partial-overlapping batch means estimators for steady-state simulations
Estimating the variance of the sample mean from a stochastic process is essential in assessing the quality of using the sample mean to estimate the population mean which is the fu...
Wheyming Tina Song, Mingchang Chih
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Simulating culture: An experiment using a multi-user virtual environment
With increased levels of global trade, foreign policy making, foreign travel, and distance collaboration using the Internet, the issue of culture takes center stage. One needs to ...
Paul A. Fishwick, Julie Henderson, Elinore Fresh, ...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Staying sane on the tenure track
A tenure-track appointment is a wonderful thing, but it really should come with an instruction manual. This article is a loosely-coupled collection of thoughts and advice on survi...
Shane G. Henderson