{"title":"Modeling &Amp; Simulation in Systems Engineering: A Survey Course","authors":"M. Loper, M. Bronston, B. Berenbach","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004797","url":null,"abstract":"Systems engineering is a bit different from other engineering disciplines in that students from many disciplines are enrolled in the program. Therefore, the objective is not to teach a simulation subject in depth, but rather to introduce the students to different techniques so that they can work with and manage simulation staff on a project. However, they need some \"hands on\" experience so that they know how challenging simulations can be, avoiding the trap of underestimating the effort involved. This paper describes the approach used at Georgia Tech to teach a compressed 7 week simulation survey course called ASE 6003 Modeling &Amp; Simulation in Systems Engineering. We describe the techniques used, our approach and the results achieved over recent years of teaching simulation in this format. Finally we discuss lessons learned and offer suggestions for others interested in offering a similar course.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115068675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A System Approach to Study Waiting Times at Emergency Departments in Metropolitan Environments","authors":"Elhabib Moustaid, S. Meijer","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004770","url":null,"abstract":"Providing quality emergency care is one of the biggest challenges faced in healthcare today. This article lays the groundwork for operating and planning emergency care provision in metropolitan environments using a system approach that goes beyond studying each emergency department in isolation. The approach consists of the development of an agent-based simulation using a bottom-up approach modeling patients, doctors, hospitals, and their interactions. The simulation is validated against real historical data of waiting times in the Stockholm region. Through experimentation with the simulation, changing the way patients choose emergency departments in metropolitan areas through the provision of information in real-time is shown to have generally a positive effect on waiting times and the quality of care. The simulation analysis shows that the effects are not uniform over the whole system and its agents.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117053517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeyu Liu, Xueping Li, Anahita Khojandi, S. Lazarova-Molnar
{"title":"On the Extension of Schelling’s Segregation Model","authors":"Zeyu Liu, Xueping Li, Anahita Khojandi, S. Lazarova-Molnar","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004848","url":null,"abstract":"Schelling’s social segregation model has been extensively studied over the years. A major implication of the model is that individual preferences of similarity lead to a collective segregation behavior. Schelling used Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) with uni-dimensional agents. In reality, people are multidimensional. This raises the question of whether multi-dimensionality can boost stability or reduce segregation in society. In this paper, we first adopt ABM to reconstruct Schelling’s original model and discuss its convergence behaviors under different threshold levels. Then, we extend Schelling’s model with multidimensional agents and investigate convergence behaviors of the model. Results suggest that if agents have high levels of demand for identical neighbors, the society might become less stable or even chaotic. Also, several experiments suggest that multidimensional agents are able to form a stable society that is not segregated, if agents prefer to stay adjacent to not only \"identical\" but also \"similar\" neighbors.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128582973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tutorial on Means of Hybrid Simulation","authors":"T. Eldabi, Antuela A. Tako, David Bell, A. Tolk","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004712","url":null,"abstract":"The benefits of Hybrid Simulation (HS) are well recorded in academic literature. It offers deeper insights into the real-life system as it allows modelers to assess its inherent problems from different dimensions. As a result HS has recently generated more attention from within the Modeling and Simulation arena. HS comes in many shapes and forms. For example, by linking two or more simulation models; linking simulation models with facilitative models; or linking simulation models with analytical models. This paper aims to explore several concepts related to HS modelling and design.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127138185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fundamentals of Domain-Specific Simulation Language Engineering","authors":"S. Mierlo, H. Vangheluwe, J. Denil","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004726","url":null,"abstract":"Simulationists use a plethora of modelling languages. General-purpose languages such as C, extended with simulation constructs, give the user access to abstractions for general-purpose computation and modularization. The learning curve for experts in domains that are far from programming, however, is steep. Languages such as Modelica and DEVS allow for a more intuitive definition of models, often through visual notations and with libraries of reusable components for various domains. The semantics of these languages is fixed. While libraries can be created, the language’s syntax and semantics cannot be adapted to suit the needs of a particular domain. This tutorial provides an introduction to modelling language engineering, which allows one to explicitly model all aspects –in particular, syntax and semantics– of a (domain-specific) modelling and simulation language and to subsequently synthesize appropriate tooling. We demonstrate the discussed techniques by means of a simple railway network language using AToMPM, a (meta)modelling tool.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132056264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Global Wip Oriented Dispatching Scheme: Work-Center Workload Balance Without Relying on Target Wip","authors":"Zhugen Zhou, O. Rose","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004686","url":null,"abstract":"Work-in-process (WIP) oriented dispatching rules have been widely applied to balance workload for work-center in wafer fabs. The performances of WIP oriented rules, e.g., minimum inventory variability scheduling (MIVS) and WIP control table (WIPCT), highly rely on the accuracy of target WIP, as the target WIP plays a major role in measuring the pull request of work-center. In this paper, to replace the target WIP, we propose a workload indicator (WI), which utilizes global fab information like dynamic workload of work-center, batch size, setup requirement and lot status, to measure the pull request of work-center. Furthermore, the proposed WI is applied in a global fab dispatching scheme which considers K-machine look ahead and J-machine look back. Simulation results show its significant improvement versus the use of the target WIP oriented rules.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130444524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating Mixed Integer Programming Models for Solving Stochastic Inventory Problems","authors":"Bas Bluemink, T. Kok, B. Srinivasan, R. Uzsoy","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004920","url":null,"abstract":"We formulate mixed integer programming (MIP) models to obtain approximate solutions to finite horizon stochastic inventory models. These deterministic formulations of necessity make a number of simplifying assumptions, but their special structure permits very short model solution times under a range of experimental conditions. We evaluate the performance of these models using simulation optimization to estimate the true optimal solutions. Computational experiments identify several demand and cost scenarios in which the MIP models yield near-optimal solutions, and other cases where they fail, suggesting directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130484050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computational Operations Research Exchange (Core): A Cyber-Infrastructure for Analytics","authors":"Yunxiao Deng, C. Kesselman, S. Sen, Jiajun Xu","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004737","url":null,"abstract":"cORe is a new cyber-infrastructure which will facilitate computational Operations Research exchange. OR models arise in many engineering domains, such as design, manufacturing, and services (e.g., banking/finance, health systems), as well as specific infrastructure-centric applications such as logistics/supply chains, power system operations, telecommunications, traffic/ transportation, and many more. In addition, modern OR tools have also been adopted in many foundational disciplines, such as computer science, machine learning, and others. Given the broad footprint of OR, the development of a robust cyber-infrastructure has the potential to not only promote greater exchange of data, models, software, and experiments but also enhance reproducibility and re-usability, both within OR, and across multiple disciplines mentioned above. cORe also has the potential to drastically reduce the computational burden on research communities which study resource allocation using analytics. This paper presents an overview of the functionality, design, and computations using cORe.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125385318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cyriac Azefack, Raksmey Phan, V. Augusto, Xiaolan Xie, G. Gardin, C. Coquard, Rémi Bouvier
{"title":"Data-Driven Modeling and Simulation of Daily Activity Patterns of Elderlies Living in a Smart Home","authors":"Cyriac Azefack, Raksmey Phan, V. Augusto, Xiaolan Xie, G. Gardin, C. Coquard, Rémi Bouvier","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004910","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the globally aging population, one of the main challenges the healthcare system would have to face is to help elderly people stay at home in good health conditions and as long as possible. Recent advances in technologies answer this need with Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living programs. Data collected by the sensors are labeled and used to monitor the inhabitant Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). This paper presents a new modeling framework of the smart home resident’s behavior that mimics his behavior on multiple aspects and is able to simulate the resident daily behavior. Our approach is illustrated by a real-life case study application. Results show that the presented framework enables the modeling of human behavior living alone in a smart home without prior knowledge on the inhabitant. Such results enable further research on frailty prediction through simulation.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125397189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sea Bright, New Jersey Reconstructed: Agent-Based Protection Theory Model Responses to Hurricane Sandy","authors":"Kim McEligot, Peggy Brouse, Andrew T. Crooks","doi":"10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004872","url":null,"abstract":"Coastal flooding is the most expensive type of natural disaster in the United States. Policy initiatives to mitigate the effects of these events are dependent upon understanding flood victim responses at an individual and municipal level. Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is an effective tool for analyzing community-wide responses to natural disaster, but the quality of the ABM’s performance is often challenging to determine. This paper discusses the complexity of the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) and Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) for human decision making regarding hazard mitigations. A combined (PADM/PMT) model is developed and integrated into the MASON modeling framework. The ABM implements a hind-cast of Hurricane Sandy’s damage to Sea Bright, NJ and homeowner post-flood reconstruction decisions. It is validated against damage assessments and post-storm surveys. The contribution of socio-economic factors and built environment on model performance is also addressed and suggests that mitigation for townhouse communities will be challenging.","PeriodicalId":127025,"journal":{"name":"2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122207430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}