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GECCO
2005
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
A case study of process facility optimization using discrete event simulation and genetic algorithm
Optimization problems such as resource allocation, job-shop scheduling, equipment utilization and process scheduling occur in a broad range of processing industries. This paper pr...
Keshav P. Dahal, Stuart Galloway, Graeme M. Burt, ...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
IFAO-SIMO: a spatial-simulation based facility network optimization framework
This paper describes an innovative framework, iFAOSimo, which integrates optimization, simulation and GIS (geographic information system) techniques to handle complex spatial faci...
Ming Xie, Wei Wang, Wen Jun Yin, Jin Dong
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Discrete event simulation: Optimizing patient flow and redesign in a replacement facility
This study observed the challenges of taking an existing facility's inpatient volumes and procedures and projecting them into a replacement facility with differently sized un...
Marshall Ashby, David M. Ferrin, Martin J. Miller,...
SIMULATION
1998
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13 years 3 months ago
Simulation and Planning of an Intermodal Container Terminal
A decision support system for the management of an intermodal container terminal is presented. Among the problems to be solved, there are the spatial allocation of containers on t...
Luca Maria Gambardella, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Mar...
BMCBI
2010
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12 years 10 months ago
MetaPIGA v2.0: maximum likelihood large phylogeny estimation using the metapopulation genetic algorithm and other stochastic heu
Background: The development, in the last decade, of stochastic heuristics implemented in robust application softwares has made large phylogeny inference a key step in most compara...
Raphaël Helaers, Michel C. Milinkovitch