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CAISE
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A Unified Foundational Ontology and some Applications of it in Business Modeling
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
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WSC
2007
15 years 2 months ago
Fundamentals of simulation modeling
We start with basic terminology and concepts of modeling, and decompose the art of modeling as a process. This overview of the process helps clarify when we should or should not u...
Paul J. Sánchez
QUESTA
2008
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14 years 12 months ago
A note on stable flow-equivalent aggregation in closed networks
We introduce the Conditional Mean Value Analysis (CMVA) algorithm, an exact solution method for product-form load-dependent closed queueing networks that provides a numerically st...
Giuliano Casale
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ACL
2009
14 years 10 months ago
A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
The implementation of collapsed Gibbs samplers for non-parametric Bayesian models is non-trivial, requiring considerable book-keeping. Goldwater et al. (2006a) presented an approx...
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater, Mark ...
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WSC
2004
15 years 1 months ago
Peeking Into the Black Box: Some Art and Science to Visualizing Agent-Based Models
This paper explores current metaphors for visualizing agent-based models. Metaphors include grid, network, ndimensional cubes and landscape visualization techniques. A final secti...
Stephen M. Guerin