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WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Case study in modeling and simulation validation methodology
The military develops simulations to analyze nearly every aspect of defense. How accurate are these simulations and to what extent do they produce dependable results? Most guidanc...
Scott D. Simpkins, Eugene P. Paulo, Lyn R. Whitake...
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Monte Carlo simulation approach to stochastic programming
Various stochastic programmingproblemscan be formulated as problems of optimization of an expected value function. Quite often the corresponding expectation function cannot be com...
Alexander Shapiro
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Deterministic fluid models of congestion control in high-speed networks
Congestion control algorithms, such as TCP or the closelyrelated additive increase-multiplicative decrease algorithms, are extremely difficult to simulate on a large scale. The re...
Sanjay Shakkottai, R. Srikant
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Spreadsheet simulation
"Spreadsheet simulation" refers to the use of a spreadsheet as a platform for representing simulation models and performing simulation experiments. This tutorial explain...
Andrew F. Seila
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Simulation of a night taxi-bus service for the historical center of Rome
The Municipality of Rome plans to introduce a taxi-bus system as a night service. A micro-simulation model was developed to estimate the needed information. Two major topics regar...
Thomas Schulze, Marco Lemessi, Francesco Filippi
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Emulation: debug it in the lab --- not on the floor
Emulation is a very powerful tool for testing and debugging control code/logic in an office environment rather than on the plant floor. Through the use of emulation, the actual co...
Cindy Schiess
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Simulating biotech manufacturing operations: issues and complexities
The Biotech industry is still an emerging application area for simulation techniques. This paper describes the hierarchical discrete event simulation efforts at Bayer Corporation&...
Prasad V. Saraph
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
A practical bottleneck detection method
This paper describes a novel method for detecting the bottleneck in a discrete event system by examining the average duration of a machine being active for all machines. The machi...
Christoph Roser, Masaru Nakano, Minoru Tanaka
WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Graphical methods for robust design of a semiconductor burn-in process
Discrete-event simulation is a common tool for the analysis of semiconductor manufacturing systems. With the aid of a simulation model, and in conjunction with sensitivity analysi...
Scott L. Rosen, Chad A. Geist, Daniel A. Finke, Jy...