Suppose that there are a number of alternative ways of operating a system, and a performance measure is available for comparing them. Simulation runs can be carried out to estimat...
Healthcare organizations exhibit both detailed and dynamic complexity. Effective and sustainable decisionmaking in healthcare requires tools that can comprehend this complexity. D...
Arti cial Life and the more general area of Complex Systems does not have a uni ed theoretical framework although most theoretical work in these areas is based on simulation. This ...
On May 4, 1988 a fire occurred after hours on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Bank building, a 62 story steelframe office tower in Los Angeles California. The sprinkler sys...
Modeling and simulation of very large systems introduces a number of issues that are not seen in the modeling of simpler systems. These arise because the resource requirements for...