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WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Tradeoffs in building a generic supply chain simulation capability
Building a simulation model for any large complex system requires high expertise and effort. These requirements can be reduced through building generic simulation capability that ...
Sanjay Jain
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Important factors in screening for colorectal cancer
A complex, stochastic simulation model of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is examined through factor screening to determine which factors in the model are important. The factor screening ...
Reza Yaesoubi, Stephen D. Roberts
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Monotonicity and stratification
In utilizing the technique of stratification, the user needs to first partition/stratify the sample space; the next task is to determine how to allocate samples to strata. How to ...
Gang Zhao, Pirooz Vakili
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Work smarter, not harder: guidelines for designing simulation experiments
We present the basic concepts of experimental design, the types of goals it can address, and why it is such an important and useful tool for simulation. A well-designed experiment...
Susan M. Sanchez
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
System dynamics: What's in it for healthcare simulation modelers
In the past decade there has been an explosion in the use of system dynamics modeling in healthcare. Despite this, the approach is still far less well known than discreteevent sim...
Sally C. Brailsford
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Allocation of simulation runs for simulation optimization
Simulation optimization (SO) is the process of finding the optimum design of a system whose performance measure(s) are estimated via simulation. We propose some ideas to improve o...
Alireza Kabirian, Sigurdur Ólafsson
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Iterative use of simulation and scheduling methodologies to improve productivity
Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work...
Karthik Krishna Vasudevan, Ravindra Lote, Edward J...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Targeted strategies for tuberculosis in areas of high HIV prevalence: a simulation study
We describe the analysis of a discrete event simulation model of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV disease, parameterized to describe the dual epidemics in Harare, Zimbabwe. The HIV epide...
Georgina R. Mellor, Christine S. M. Currie, Elizab...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient tail estimation for sums of correlated lognormals
Our focus is on efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by corre...
Jose Blanchet, Sandeep Juneja, Leonardo Rojas-Nand...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation of time to first water application for the First Interstate Bank fire
On May 4, 1988 a fire occurred after hours on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Bank building, a 62 story steelframe office tower in Los Angeles California. The sprinkler sys...
Robert Till