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WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
The VisSim/Discrete Event Modeling Environment
VisSim/Discrete Event is a process-oriented, discrete event modeling toolkit based on the powerful and proven graphical interface provided by the underlying VisSim simulation envi...
Herbert D. Schwetman, Arun Mulpur
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Data Analysis and Automatic Run-Length Control in CSIM18
The data collection and the automatic run-length control features provided in the CSIM18 library allow model builders to easily collect valid data from a simulation model and to b...
Herbert D. Schwetman, Jeffrey A. Brumfield
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Urban Traffic Simulation with Psycho-Physical Vehicle-Following Models
A psycho-physical vehicle-following model tries to capture both the physical and human components of congested-traffic simulations. These models determine the reactions of the veh...
Thomas Schulze, Thomas Fliess
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Simulation Optimization Using Simultaneous Replications and Event Time Dilation
A new approach to simulation response optimization is presented that takes advantage of the ability to run simultaneous replications of different experimental factor settings in a...
Lee Schruben
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
System Concept Development with Virtual Prototyping
Virtual prototyping with 3D drawing programs provides a means of rapidly developing system concepts and analyzing them for form, fit, logistics, human factors integration, and gen...
James C. Schaaf Jr., Faye Lynn Thompson
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Petri Net Based Simulation of Construction Schedules
Scheduling of a construction project requires: a) hierarchical decomposition of the project; b) incorporation of risk and uncertainty in the activity time and cost estimates; and ...
Anil Sawhney
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
It is a Far, Far Better Mean I Find...
An important problem often faced by simulation analysts is that of choosing (or selecting) one of several potential system designs. This can be accomplished by comparing output fr...
Susan M. Sanchez
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Descriptive Sampling: An Improvement over Latin Hypercube Sampling
Descriptive Sampling (DS), a Monte Carlo sampling technique based on a deterministic selection of the input values and their random permutation, represents a deep conceptual chang...
Eduardo Saliby
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Activate This Classroom at Time Now
Active and cooperative learning methods represent a paradigm shift in the delivery of engineering education. These techniques recognize that the passive model of the typical colle...
Manuel D. Rossetti
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
AutoMod Tutorial
The AutoModTM simulation system differs significantly from other systems because of its ability to deal with the physical elements of a system in physical (graphical) terms and th...
Matthew W. Rohrer