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SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Large Steps in Cloth Simulation
The bottle-neck in most cloth simulation systems is that time steps must be small to avoid numerical instability. This paper describes a cloth simulation system that can stably ta...
David Baraff, Andrew P. Witkin
WSC
2008
15 years 7 months ago
A simulator to improve waiting times at a Medical Imaging Center
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...
Francisco J. Ramis, Felipe F. Baesler, Edgar Berho...
WSC
2008
15 years 7 months ago
The improved sweep metaheuristic for simulation optimization and application to job shop scheduling
We present an improved sweep metaheuristic for discrete event simulation optimization. The sweep algorithm is a tree search similar to beam search. The basic idea is to run a limi...
George Jiri Mejtsky
WSC
2004
15 years 6 months ago
Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Space Shuttle Operations
This paper describes the application of parallel simulation techniques to represent structured functional parallelism present within the Space Shuttle Operations Flow, utilizing t...
José A. Sepúlveda, Luis C. Rabelo, M...
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WSC
1998
15 years 6 months ago
Tutorial: Simulation in the Hospitality Industry
This tutorial article addresses the use of simulation in the hospitality industry, in particular the use of simulation in the fast food restaurant industry. Although the applicati...
Darrell W. Starks, Todd C. Whyte