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WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Applying a Cognitive Architecture to Control of Virtual Non-Player Characters
CHI Systems, under contract to the U. S. Army Research Institute, is developing an immersive training system, called Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readines...
Chris McCollum, Charles Barba, Thomas Santarelli, ...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Better Selection of the Best
We present a new method of selecting the best of several competing system designs on the basis of expected steadystate performance. The method uses a new form of timeseries bootst...
Huaiyu Harry Ma, Thomas R. Willemain
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Fads and Fallacies in Asset Liability Management for Life Insurance
We shall examine the principles behind contemporary approaches to insurance risk management. Furthermore, we shall consider various methodologies, some successful, that have been ...
Graham Lord
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Temporal Uncertainty in Process-Oriented Distributed Simulations
Existing research has defined a new type of simulation time called Approximate Time, where the simulation's knowledge about the values that represent time is uncertain. The a...
Margaret L. Loper, Richard M. Fujimoto
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Easy-SC: A Supply Chain Simulation Tool
To assist the decision makers, we develop a new supply chain simulation software: Easy-SC, a Java-based tool that simplifies the supply chain simulation. In its current state of d...
Juqi Liu, Wei Wang, Yueting Chai, Yi Liu
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Foundations of Validating Reusable Behavioral Models in Engineering Design Problems
We present a conceptual framework for validating reusable behavioral models. The setting for this work is a modern product development environment in which design is performed by ...
Richard J. Malak, Christiaan J. J. Paredis
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluation of Methods Used to Detect Warm-Up Period in Steady State Simulation
This paper reviews the performance of various methods used to detect the warm up length in steady state discrete event simulation. An evaluation procedure is used to compare the m...
Prasad S. Mahajan, Ricki G. Ingalls
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Analyses for Simulating Schedule Networks
This paper introduces the Stochastic Project Scheduling Simulation (SPSS) system and two additional useful statistical analysis tools. SPSS integrates CPM, PERT, and Discrete Even...
Dong-Eun Lee, Jonathan Jingsheng Shi
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Building Credible Input Models
Most discrete-event simulation models have stochastic elements that mimic the probabilistic nature of the system under consideration. A close match between the input model and the...
Lawrence Leemis
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Optimal Computing Budget Allocation for Multi-Objective Simulation Models
Simulation plays a vital role in identifying the best system design from among a set of competing designs. To improve simulation efficiency, ranking and selection techniques are o...
Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, Suyan Teng, David Golds...