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2004
14 years 11 months ago
Modeling a Garment Manufacturer's Cash Flow Using Object-Oriented Simulation
Garment manufacturers usually work with a short vision of the demand to come in the following months. So they want to borrow as little as possible while still making a good profit...
José A. Sepúlveda, Haluk M. Akin
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WSC
2008
15 years 13 days ago
Large deviations perspective on ordinal optimization of heavy-tailed systems
We consider the problem of selecting the best among several heavy-tailed systems using a large deviations perspective. In contrast to the light-tailed setting studied by Glynn and...
Jose Blanchet, Jingchen Liu, Bert Zwart
WSC
2008
15 years 13 days ago
Dynamic security: An agent-based model for airport defense
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shifted the focus of airport security in 2004 to incorporate the need to continuously and rapidly adapt security to shifting threats. MIT...
William E. Weiss
WSC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
HDPS, an XML/XSLT Based Hierarchal Modeling System
HDPS is a practical system for designing modeling paradigms, creating hierarchal model definitions, and evaluating multi-paradigm models - particularly in business and finance. HD...
Richard Evan Curry, Kiriakos Vlahos
WSC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Towards Adaptive Caching for Parallel and Discrete Event Simulation
We investigate factors that impact the effectiveness of caching to speed up discrete event simulation. Walsh and Sirer have shown that a variant of function caching (staged simula...
Abhishek Chugh, Maria Hybinette