Importance Sampling is a potentially powerful variance reduction technique to speed up simulations where the objective depends on the occurrence of rare events. However, it is cru...
Distributed simulation is desired in many industries to support analysis and decision making for complex and integrated problems. Interoperating commercial simulation packages usi...
Business applications of data mining in marketing often focus on use of predictive models to classify customer events such as acquisition, sales of products and services or custom...
Process oriented views are widely recognized as very useful for modeling, but di cult to implement e ciently in a simulation system, as compared to event oriented views. In partic...
Higher dimensional automata (HDA) are a model of concurrency that can express most of the traditional partial order models like Mazurkiewicz traces, pomsets, event structures, or P...