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WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Using intelligent agents to understand management practices and retail productivity
Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agentbased modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Simulation and uncertainty modeling of project schedules estimates
Project management involves various sources of uncertainty that affect planning, execution schedules, and cost. At the same time, the influx of information can be employed to redu...
Ivan Ourdev, Simaan M. AbouRizk, Mohammed Al-Batai...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Allocation of resources for hospital evacuations via simulation
Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) issued an order recently requiring that all hospitals have an evacuation plan with the following components: sheltering plan,...
Esengul Tayfur, Kevin Taaffe
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A simulation study on the uses of shuttle carriers in the container yard
In this paper, we investigate how two main factors affect the efficiency of the port operation. The two main factors are type of transport vehicles and layout of the storage yard....
Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, Kok Choon Tan, Huei Chu...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Monte Carlo simulation in financial engineering
This paper reviews the use of Monte Carlo simulation in the field of financial engineering. It focuses on several interesting topics and introduces their recent development, inc...
Nan Chen, L. Jeff Hong
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Determining efficient simulation run lengths for real time decision making
Suppose that there are a number of alternative ways of operating a system, and a performance measure is available for comparing them. Simulation runs can be carried out to estimat...
Russell C. H. Cheng
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling and simulation of group behavior in e-government implementation
This study proposes a multi-agent modeling and simulation approach using EGGBM (E-Government Group Behavior Model) to research complex group behavior in Egovernment implementation...
Jiang Wu, Bin Hu