Taking the Work Out of Simulation Modeling: An Application of Technology Integration

This paper presents an implementation methodology appropriate for providing a broad range of proven, classical Operations Research methods and techniques to the simulation modeler without imposing that s/he become proficient in a programming language. The user interface is enabled by ARENA’s robust Applications Specific Template (AST) development environment. The simulation example highlights an inbedded optimization problem, the Knapsack loading problem. The methodology has been used to implement several other optimization algorithms and heuristics including a generalized linear programming algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Gregory S. Baker
• Keywords: Generalized Linear Programming, Inbedded Optimization Problem, Knapsack Loading Problem, Modeling And Simulation, WSC 1997