WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Research in parallel simulation has been around for more than two decades. However, the number of papers reporting on its application to real world problems is limited. At the 200...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a simulation-based technique useful in solving Markov decision processes if their transition probabilities are not easily obtainable or if the probl...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper develops procedures for selecting a set of normal populations with unknown means and unknown variances in order that the final subset of selected populations satisfies ...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Medical Imaging Centers (MIC) are critical units in every hospital or medical center because they are an important step in generating a patient's diagnostic. This paper shows...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Building a simulation model for any large complex system requires high expertise and effort. These requirements can be reduced through building generic simulation capability that ...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In utilizing the technique of stratification, the user needs to first partition/stratify the sample space; the next task is to determine how to allocate samples to strata. How to ...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In the past decade there has been an explosion in the use of system dynamics modeling in healthcare. Despite this, the approach is still far less well known than discreteevent sim...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Our focus is on efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by corre...
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
A problem in health care is the lengthy waiting time for patients to receive an appointment. Long appointment delays cause patient dissatisfaction with the health care clinic and ...