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...
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...
Maritime terminals of pure transhipment are emerging logistic realities in long-distance containerized trade. Here, complex activities of resource allocation and scheduling should...
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...
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...
Focusing on process constraints (or bottlenecks) is how companies are improving productivity, decreasing response times. However, a bottleneck is not easily detectable, especially...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
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...