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WSC
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation of complex construction processes
Eight successively refined simulation models for the earthmoving operations involved in the construction of a dam provide the foundation for illustrating the ease and effectivenes...
Photios G. Ioannou, Julio C. Martínez
WSC
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling of Chain Conveyors and Their Equipment Interfaces
Chain conveyors are a specific type of conveyor often used in a variety of manufacturing and production applications, such as body and paint shops. These conveyors must typically ...
Ali K. Gunal, Edward J. Williams, Shigeru Sadakane
WSC
1996
13 years 6 months ago
New Advances and Applications of Combining Simulation and Optimization
The area of integrating simulation and optimization has recently undergone remarkable changes. New advances are making available applications of simulation that previously had bee...
Fred Glover, James P. Kelly, Manuel Laguna
WSC
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Simulating Lyme disease using parallel discrete event simulation
Ewa Deelman, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Thomas Caraco
WSC
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Supporting Manufacturing with Simulation: Model Design, Development, and Deployment
In this paper, we identify and discuss the features we believe are key to the successful use of simulation as a manufacturing support tool. The discussion begins with three sample...
Frank Chance, Jennifer Robinson, John W. Fowler
WSC
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Consistency of overlapping batch variances
Overlapping batch statistics estimate the variance of point estimators using overlapping batches (Schmeiser, Avramidis and Hashem 1990). In this paper we study sufficient conditio...
Demet C. Wood, Bruce W. Schmeiser
WSC
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Downtime data - its collection, analysis, and importance
Until the day when plant production personnel and equipment have no downtime, proper collection and analysis of downtime data will be essential to the development of valid, credib...
Edward J. Williams
WSC
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Finite element pre-operative simulation of cementless hip replacement
Christopher D. Visnic, Robert H. Reid, Omar Ghatta...