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WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Modelling and improving human decision making with simulation
Modelling human interaction and decision-making within a simulation presents a particular challenge. This paper describes a methodology that is being developed known as `knowledge...
Stewart Robinson, Thanos Alifantis, Robert Hurrion...
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Database driven factory simulation: a proof-of-concept demonstrator
The paper presents a database-based method to reduce the development time and project lead-time for large discreteevent simulation models of entire factories. The database used to...
Lars G. Randell, Gunnar S. Bolmsjö
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
The use of simulation for process improvement at an ambulatory surgery center
This work has for objective building a simulation model to evaluate different alternatives of operation of a projected center for ambulatory surgery. For the construction of the m...
Francisco J. Ramis, Jorge L. Palma, Felipe F. Baes...
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Sizing a pilot production line using simulation
The semiconductor industry is rapidly expanding worldwide. With the continuing advancement of technology, companies are continually striving to develop and maintain cutting edge p...
Peng Qu, Geoffrey E. Skinner, Scott J. Mason
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Production scheduling validity in high level supply chain models
Although they focus on the big picture, high level supply chain models cannot gloss over the capacity of production nodes to meet production allocations. Capacity is not simply a ...
David J. Parsons, Richard A. Phelps
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Simulating networks of wireless sensors
Recent advances in low-power embedded processors, radios, and micro-mechanical systems (MEMs) have made possible the development of networks of wirelessly interconnected sensors. ...
Sung Park, Andreas Savvides, Mani B. Srivastava
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Taylor enterprise dynamics
Taylor Enterprise Dynamics (Taylor ED) is an objectoriented software system used to model, simulate, visualize, and monitor dynamic-flow process activities and systems. Atoms are ...
William B. Nordgren
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Practical approaches for validating a construction simulation
This paper presents three methods implemented in the activity-based construction modeling and simulation (ABC) system for validating a construction simulation. The first method re...
Jonathan Jingsheng Shi
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Critical tools identification and characteristics curves construction in a wafer fabrication facility
The purpose of this research was to identify the factors in a wafer fabrication facility that significantly affect the cycle times of two main technologies that are currently in p...
Dima Nazzal, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi
WSC
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Quantifying simulation output variability using confidence intervals and statistical process control
Two types of variability can occur in model output: variability between replications and variability within each replication. The objective of the model combined with the type of ...
Amy Jo Naylor