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WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Parallel Simulation of Group Behaviors
Group behaviors, e.g. birds flocking, are widely used in virtual reality, computer games, robotics and artificial life. While many methods to simulate group behaviors have been pr...
Bo Zhou, Suiping Zhou
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Knowledge Representation for Conceptual Simulation Modeling
Simulation is a powerful tool that helps decision makers in business and industry to solve difficult and complex problems, reduce cost, improve quality and productivity, and short...
Ming Zhou, Young Jun Son, Zhimin Chen
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Make-to-Stock Systems with Backorders: IPA Gradients
We consider single-stage, single-product Make-to-Stock systems with random demand and random service (production) rate, where demand shortages at the inventory facility are backor...
Yao Zhao, Benjamin Melamed
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Wavelet Neural Network for Prediction of Hourly NOx and NO2 Concentrations
Adaptive neural network is a powerful tool for prediction of air pollution abatement scenarios. But it is often difficult to avoid overfit during the training of adaptive neural n...
Zhiguo Zhang, Ye San
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Total Setup Cost for a Metal Casting Company
The optimizing sequence of production for a set of customer orders
Xue-Ming Yuan, Hsien Hui Khoo, Trevor A. Spedding,...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Agent-Supported Simulation Brokering on the Semantic Web: Foundations for a Dynamic Composability Approach
Federated simulations address the need for interoperability, as well as the improvement of reuse and composability of existing simulation models. The focal goal in a federated sim...
Levent Yilmaz, Tuncer I. Ören
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Airport Terminal-Approach Safety and Capacity Analysis Using an Agent-Based Model
The consistent growth of air traffic demand is causing the operational volumes at hub airports to approach their maximum capacities. With this growth, delays are increasing, and s...
Yue Xie, John Shortle, George Donohue
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
More "Normal" Than Normal: Scaling Distributions and Complex Systems
One feature of many naturally occurring or engineered complex systems is tremendous variability in event sizes. To account for it, the behavior of these systems is often described...
Walter Willinger, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, L...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
An Odds-Ratio Indifference-Zone Selection Procedure for Bernoulli Populations
We present a new sequential, eliminating procedure for selecting the best system in a single-factor Bernoulli-response experiment with an odds-ratio indifference zone, where best ...
Jamie R. Wieland, Barry L. Nelson
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Virtual Reality: Its Usefulness for Ergonomic Analysis
This paper presents the results of an effort to compare results of an experiment performed in both a virtual and a real environment. The research question addressed is if virtual ...
Lawrence E. Whitman, Michael Jorgensen, Kuresh Hat...