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WSC
2008
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A practitioner, a vender, and a researcher walk into a bar: Trying to explain what researchers do
Practitioners, venders, and researchers form three influential groups within the WSC community. The groups depend upon each other, yet not-enough interaction exists. Researchers, ...
Bruce W. Schmeiser
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WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Conceptual modelling: Knowledge acquisition and model abstraction
AL MODELLING: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND MODEL ABSTRACTION Kathy Kotiadis Stewart Robinson Operational Research and Management Sciences Group Warwick Business School University of W...
Kathy Kotiadis, Stewart Robinson
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Discrete stochastic optimization using linear interpolation
We consider discrete stochastic optimization problems where the objective function can only be estimated by a simulation oracle; the oracle is defined only at the discrete points....
Honggang Wang, Bruce W. Schmeiser
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Managing WIP and cycle time with the help of Loop Control
As an adaptation of the CONWIP concept, AMD has developed a heuristic approach to control the WIP in its wafer fabrication facilities (fabs). The so called "Loop Control"...
Steffen Kalisch, Robert Ringel, Jorg Weigang