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WSC
2000
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Automated material handling system traffic control by means of node balancing
This paper presents a logistic algorithm that improves traffic conditions in a network-like automated material handling system (AMHS). The algorithm uses a lookahead procedure and...
Namdar Bahri, Robert J. Gaskins
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Simulation in the future
Seven panelists, all simulation consultants, give their view of the future of simulation. There is some consistency in the views with four areas being mentioned by three of the pa...
Jerry Banks
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Using simulation for the economic evaluation of liver transplantation
This paper demonstrates the use of simulation in an evaluative study for the technology of liver transplantation from cost-effectiveness point of view. This study is conducted in ...
Lynne P. Baldwin, Tillal Eldabi, Ray J. Paul, Andr...
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Using simulation and critical points to define states in continuous search spaces
Many artificial intelligence techniques rely on the notion ate" as an abstraction of the actual state of the nd an "operator" as an abstraction of the actions that ...
Marc S. Atkin, Paul R. Cohen
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Computer assistance for model definition
Modeling requires considerable knowledge of the various stages of the simulation process. The modeler needs to know a great deal of the system to be modeled (domain specific knowl...
Henk de Swaan Arons, Eelco van Asperen
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
System dynamics modelling in supply chain management: research review
The use of System Dynamics Modeling in Supply Chain Management has only recently re-emerged after a lengthy slack period. Current research on System Dynamics Modelling in supply c...
Bernhard J. Angerhofer, Marios C. Angelides
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Product-mix analysis with Discrete Event Simulation
Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been used as a design and validation tool in various production and business applications. DES can also be utilized for analyzing the product-m...
Raid Al-Aomar
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Simulation optimization of stochastic systems with integer variables by sequential linearization
Discrete-event simulation is widely used to analyse and improve the performance of manufacturing systems. The related optimization problem often includes integer design variables ...
S. J. Abspoel, L. F. P. Etman, J. Vervoort, J. E. ...
WSC
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Low cost response surface methods for and from simulation optimization
We propose "low cost response surface methods" (LCRSM) that typically require half the experimental runs of standard response surface methods based on central composite ...
Theodore Allen, Liyang Yu