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WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A discrete event model of clinical trial enrollment at Eli Lilly and company
Clinical trials constitute large, complex, and resource intensive activities for pharmaceutical companies. Accurate prediction of patient enrollment would represent a major step f...
Bernard M. McGarvey, Nancy J. Dynes, Burch C. Lin,...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A hybrid inventory control system approach applied to the food industry
The appropriate production and inventory control policy is a key factor for modern enterprises’ success in competitive environment. In the food industry, most of food manufactur...
David Claudio, Jie Zhang, Ying Zhang
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A comparison of scheduling approaches for a make-to-order electronics manufacturer
In this paper, we compare two scheduling procedures designed to minimize setup costs for a make-to-order electronics manufacturing. While setup costs are important, quick response...
Susan K. Heath, Douglas J. Morrice
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Derivative estimation with known control-variate variances
We investigate the conception that the sample variance of the control variate (CV) should be used for estimating the optimal linear CV weight, even when the CV variance is known. ...
Jamie R. Wieland, Bruce W. Schmeiser
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Semantics of petri nets: a comparison
In this paper, we investigate results on relationship between different semantics of place/transition Petri nets based on labelled partial orders. We also discuss relationships be...
Gabriel Juhás, Fedor Lehocki, Robert Lorenz
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Representation and simulation of stochastic petrinet models using xPNML
The paper presents an extensible Petri Net Markup Language (xPNML), which is an extended version of PNML. The xPNML format overcomes limitations associated with PNML structure for...
Hyunsoo Lee, Bikram Sharda, Amarnath Banerjee
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The simulation power of automod
Decision making in industry continues to become more complicated. Customers are more demanding, competition is more fierce, and costs for labor and raw materials continue to rise....
Todd LeBaron, Craig Jacobsen
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A test implementation of the core manufacturing simulation data specification
This paper describes an effort of testing the Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) information model as a neutral data interface for a discrete event simulation model develop...
Marcus Johansson, Björn Johansson, Anders Sko...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Defense and homeland security applications of multi-agent simulations
Department of Defense and Homeland Security analysts are increasingly using multi-agent simulation (MAS) to examine national security issues. This paper summarizes three MAS natio...
Thomas W. Lucas, Susan M. Sanchez, Felix Martinez,...