This paper explores an approach to global, stochastic, simulation optimization which combines stochastic approximation (SA) with simulated annealing (SAN). SA directs a search of ...
This paper illustrates the use of simulation for evaluating and analyzing air cargo operations at one of the new stateof-the art cargo facilities at Toronto Pearson Airport. The e...
Aaron Luntala Nsakanda, Michel Turcotte, Moustapha...
This paper uses a probe-based sampling approach to study the behavioural properties of Web server scheduling strategies, such as Processor Sharing (PS) and Shortest Remaining Proc...
The development of safety critical systems is guided by standards. Many standards require the development of a safety case to demonstrate the acceptability of Safety Critical Syst...
Planners from the family of Graphplan (Graphplan, IPP, STAN...) are presently considered as the most efficient ones on numerous planning domains. Their partially ordered plans can...