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WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling bioterrorism preparedness with simulation in rural healthcare system
As a result of the anthrax letter incidents in 2001, concerns about terrorists’ use of biological agents have increased dramatically at government state and federal levels. The ...
Lisa Patvivatsiri, Elliot J. Montes Jr., Ouyang Xi
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Transformations for accelerating MCMC simulations with broken ergodicity
A new approach for overcoming broken ergodicity in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations of complex systems is described. The problem of broken ergodicity is often present i...
Mark Fleischer
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Using quantiles in ranking and selection procedures
Jennifer McNeill Bekki, John W. Fowler, Gerald T. ...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A knowledge-based method for the validation of military simulation
The validation of modern military simulation relies heavily on the opinions of military experts, and it makes the validation task exhaustive and time-consuming. The knowledgebased...
Feiyan Min, Ping Ma, Ming Yang
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Measuring manufacturing throughput using takt time analysis and simulation
This paper is motivated by a case study performed at a company that manufactures two main types of customized products. In an effort to significantly increase their throughput cap...
Jun Duanmu, Kevin Taaffe
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Special purpose simulation template for workflow analysis in construction
Workflow analysis is an important component in the simulation of construction operations. It involves creating a specific number of work requests for a crew every time period, com...
Sivakumar Palaniappan, Anil Sawhney, Howard H. Bas...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Simulation metamodels for modeling output distribution parameters
Metamodels are functions with calibrated parameters, used actions and simplifications of the simulation model. A metamodel exposes the system’s input-output relationship and ca...
Isabel R. Santos, Pedro R. Santos
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Optimistic parallel discrete event simulation of the event-based transmission line matrix method
In this paper we describe a technique for efficient parallelization of digital wave guide network (DWN) models based on an interpretation of the finite difference time domain (F...
David W. Bauer, Ernest H. Page
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Towards a conceptual framework for visual analytics of time and time-oriented data
Time is an important data dimension with distinct characteristics that is common across many application domains. This demands specialized methods in order to support proper analy...
Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, C...