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WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A preliminary study of optimal splitting for rare-event simulation
Efficiency is a big concern when using simulation to estimate rare-event probabilities, since a huge number of simulation replications may be needed in order to obtain a reasonabl...
John F. Shortle, Chun-Hung Chen
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Definition and analysis of composition structures for discrete-event models
The re-use of a model by someone else than the original developer is still an open challenge. This paper presents composition structures and interface descriptions for discreteeve...
Mathias Röhl, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Unifying simulation and optimization of strategic sourcing and transportation
Proposed and developed is a framework and an extensible library of simulation modeling components for strategic sourcing and transportation. The components include items, supplier...
Malak Al-Nory, Alexander Brodsky
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation based sales forecasting on retail small stores
As the competition becomes more and more intense, many retail small store chain operators are eager to know how to evaluate new store locations quantitatively to support a scienti...
Hairong Lv, Xinxin Bai, Wen Jun Yin, Jin Dong
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Valuation of variable annuity contracts with cliquet options in Asia markets
Variable annuities are very appealing to the investor. For example, in United States, sales volume on variable annuities grew to a record 184 billion in calendar year 2006. Howeve...
Ming-hua Hsieh
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Integrating simulation and optimization research into a graduate supply chain modeling course
This paper addresses the on-going work of integrating supply chain research into the graduate curriculum in the form of a Supply Chain Modeling course. This course integrates rese...
Ricki G. Ingalls, Mario Cornejo, Chinnatat Methapa...
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A framework for simulating industrial construction processes
In an industrial fabrication shop, such as pipe spool and steel fabrication, a product usually travels in the system in the form of raw materials or components of the product. Dur...
Naimeh Sadeghi, Aminah Robinson Fayek
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A simulation based optimization algorithm for slack reduction and workforce scheduling
In an assembly line with high labor proportion, the workforce planning and scheduling is a very complex problem. At the background of increasing labor costs, it is very important ...
Daniel Noack, Oliver Rose