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WSC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Iterative use of simulation and scheduling methodologies to improve productivity
Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work...
Karthik Krishna Vasudevan, Ravindra Lote, Edward J...
WSC
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Simulation of time to first water application for the First Interstate Bank fire
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...
Robert Till
WSC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
A simulation based optimization algorithm for slack reduction and workforce scheduling
In an assembly line with high labor proportion, the workforce planning and scheduling is a very complex problem. At the background of increasing labor costs, it is very important ...
Daniel Noack, Oliver Rose
WSC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Selecting the best linear simulation metamodel
We consider the output of a simulation model of a system about which little is initially known. This output is often dependent on a large number of factors. It is helpful, in exam...
Russell Cheng
WSC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
A simulation based scheduling model for call centers with uncertain arrival rates
In this paper we develop a two stage algorithm for scheduling call centers with strict SLAs and arrival rate uncertainty. The first cut schedule can be developed in less than a mi...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison