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WSC
1998
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Use of Simulation in Optimization of Maintenance Policies
Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...
Farhad Azadivar, J. Victor Shu
RIAO
2000
15 years 11 days ago
The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story
This paper describes work within the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) over the last three years in designing and implementing evaluations of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) t...
John S. Garofolo, Cedric G. P. Auzanne, Ellen M. V...
WSC
2000
15 years 10 days ago
Simulation optimization of stochastic systems with integer variables by sequential linearization
Discrete-event simulation is widely used to analyse and improve the performance of manufacturing systems. The related optimization problem often includes integer design variables ...
S. J. Abspoel, L. F. P. Etman, J. Vervoort, J. E. ...
WSC
1997
15 years 10 days ago
Solving Engine Maintenance Capacity Problems with Simulation
For many companies the scheduling of job shops proves very difficult. Competing priorities (due dates, potential profit) from multiple customers confronts the plant manager with m...
Robert Gatland, Eric Yang, Kenneth Buxton
AAAI
1996
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Computing Optimal Policies for Partially Observable Decision Processes Using Compact Representations
: Partially-observable Markov decision processes provide a very general model for decision-theoretic planning problems, allowing the trade-offs between various courses of actions t...
Craig Boutilier, David Poole