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WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation 101 software: workshop and beyond
The C source code associated with the Simulation 101 preconference workshop (offered at the 2006 and 2007 Winter Simulation Conferences) is presented here. This paper begins with ...
Barry Lawson, Lawrence Leemis
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A confidence interval for tail conditional expectation via two-level simulation
We develop and evaluate a two-level simulation procedure that produces a confidence interval for tail conditional expectation, otherwise known as conditional tail expectation. Th...
Hai Lan, Barry L. Nelson, Jeremy Staum
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Important factors in screening for colorectal cancer
A complex, stochastic simulation model of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is examined through factor screening to determine which factors in the model are important. The factor screening ...
Reza Yaesoubi, Stephen D. Roberts
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Work smarter, not harder: guidelines for designing simulation experiments
We present the basic concepts of experimental design, the types of goals it can address, and why it is such an important and useful tool for simulation. A well-designed experiment...
Susan M. Sanchez
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Allocation of simulation runs for simulation optimization
Simulation optimization (SO) is the process of finding the optimum design of a system whose performance measure(s) are estimated via simulation. We propose some ideas to improve o...
Alireza Kabirian, Sigurdur Ólafsson
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Targeted strategies for tuberculosis in areas of high HIV prevalence: a simulation study
We describe the analysis of a discrete event simulation model of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV disease, parameterized to describe the dual epidemics in Harare, Zimbabwe. The HIV epide...
Georgina R. Mellor, Christine S. M. Currie, Elizab...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation of time to first water application for the First Interstate Bank fire
On May 4, 1988 a fire occurred after hours on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Bank building, a 62 story steelframe office tower in Los Angeles California. The sprinkler sys...
Robert Till
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A simulation model to improve warehouse operations
Warehouse or distribution centre managers have to decide how to collect the products to fulfill customers requests but also where to locate the products (SKUs) and how much space ...
Jean Philippe Gagliardi, Jacques Renaud, Angel Rui...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The range of predictions for calibrated agent-based simulation models
Agent-based simulation is increasingly used to study systems in many areas of business and science. Using agentbased simulation for prediction could be very valuable. However, the...
DongFang Shi, Roger J. Brooks
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation results and formalism for global-local scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing facilities
This article deals with an approach for managing scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The proposed approach ensures consistency between global and local schedulin...
Mickaël Bureau, Stéphane Dauzèr...