{"title":"Learning about systems using machine learning: Towards more data-driven feedback loops","authors":"Mahmoud Elbattah, O. Molloy","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8247895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8247895","url":null,"abstract":"Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated great potentials for constructing new knowledge, or improving already established knowledge. Reflecting this trend, the paper lends support to the discussion of why and how should ML support the practice of modeling and simulation? Subsequently, the study goes through a use case in relation to healthcare, which aims to provide a practical perspective for integrating simulation models with data-driven insights learned by ML models. Through a realistic scenario, we utilise ML clustering in order to learn about the system's structure and behaviour under study. The insights gained by the clustering model are then utilised to build a System Dynamics model. Recognizing its current limitations, the study is believed to serve as a kernel towards promoting further integration between simulation modeling and ML.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"434 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115935147","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":"Agent-based and regression models of social influence","authors":"Wai Kin Victor Chan","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8247883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8247883","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies social influence (i.e., adoption of belief) using agent-based simulation and regression models. Each agent is modeled by a linear regression model. Agents interact with neighbors by exchanging social beliefs. It is observed that if individual belief is linear in neighbors' beliefs, system-level belief and aggregated neighbors' beliefs can also be described by a linear regression model. Analysis is conducted on a simplified 2-node network to provide insight into the interactions and results of general models. Least squares estimates are developed. Explicit expressions are obtained to explain relationship between initial belief and current belief.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124251081","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}
S. Achter, Iris Lorscheid, Jonas Hauke, M. Meyer, David Meyer-Riehl, Thomas Ponsignon, Can Sun, H. Ehm
{"title":"On agent-based modeling in semiconductor supply chain planning","authors":"S. Achter, Iris Lorscheid, Jonas Hauke, M. Meyer, David Meyer-Riehl, Thomas Ponsignon, Can Sun, H. Ehm","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8248065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8248065","url":null,"abstract":"Supply chain (SC) planning in the semiconductor industry is challenged by high uncertainties on the demand side as well as a complex manufacturing process with non-deterministic failure modes on the production side. Understanding the complex interdependencies and processes of a SC is essential to realize opportunities and mitigate risks. However, this understanding is not easy to achieve due to the complexity of the processes and the non-deterministic human behavior determining SC planning performance. Our paper argues for an agent-based approach to understand and improve SC planning processes using an industry example. We give an overview of current work and elaborate on the need for integrating human behavior into the models. Overall, we conclude that agent-based simulation is a valuable method to identify favorable and unfavorable conditions for successful planning.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114506428","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":"Revisiting the four C'S of managing a successful simulation project","authors":"Melanie R. Barker, Nancy Zupick","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8247816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8247816","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to discuss four key elements imperative to conducting an effective simulation study and how they impact the progress of the study. • The Clue: determining when and why to use simulation and what issues will be addressed • The Cash: understanding the financial costs and the impact of the project • The Commitment and the Courage: the importance of having a team committed to the endeavor and having the courage to make hard decisions so that the project will be successful Each of these key factors are critical to starting a successful project and keeping it on track towards proposing effective solutions for the problems the model was designed to address.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114510681","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":"History of improving statistical efficiency","authors":"R. Barton, Marvin K. Nakayama, L. Schruben","doi":"10.5555/3242181.3242193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3242181.3242193","url":null,"abstract":"Statistical efficiency has been a focus of research since the inception of discrete-event simulation modeling and analysis, with origins perhaps twenty years before the first Winter Simulation Conference. We review important work in the design of simulation experiments, variance reduction through dependence structures, and efficient rare-event simulation. The focus is on the early developments, although some recent innovations also receive mention.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114982578","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":"Scheduling of drone-based material transfer system in semiconductor manufacturing","authors":"Andy Ham, Dongjin Kim","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8248085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8248085","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, for delivery in logistics operations has inspired this research. One conceivable scenario is to use a drone to transfer jobs between locations in a future semiconductor factory. Each job might be characterized by origin, destination, priority, and precedence-relationship. In particular, the precedence-relationship occurs when drones are competing for limited number of ports (similar to helicopter landing platform). The objective is to minimize the maximum completion time of all delivery jobs performed by a fleet of drones. Two exact approaches are presented: a mixed integer programming and a constraint programming, and tested for real-time perspective with problem instances up to 50-drone and 100-job.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116032287","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}
Victor Sepulveda, Roberto Solar, Alonso Inostrosa-Psijas, V. Gil-Costa, Mauricio Marín
{"title":"Towards rapid population genetics forward-in-time simulations","authors":"Victor Sepulveda, Roberto Solar, Alonso Inostrosa-Psijas, V. Gil-Costa, Mauricio Marín","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8247993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8247993","url":null,"abstract":"Computer simulations are an important tool for the current research in population and evolutionary genetics. They help to understand the genetic evolution of complex processes dynamics that cannot be analytically predicted. The basic idea is to generate synthetic data sets of genetic polymorphisms under user-specified scenarios describing the evolutionary history and genetic architecture of a species. In this work, we focus on forward-in-time simulations which represent the most powerful, but, at the same time, most compute-intensive approach for simulating the genetic material of a population. We present a highly-optimized forward-in-time simulation library called Libgdrift, specially designed to create large sets of replicated simulations. Our simulation library uses code optimizations such as spatial locality and a two-phase data compression approach which allow fast simulation executions, while reducing memory storage. Results show that our proposal can improve the performance reported by well-known simulation software.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"255 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123601024","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}
Hyun-Jin Jung, Gisun Jung, Young Kim, Nokhaiz Tariq Khan, Yo-Han Kim, Y. Kim, Jinsoo Park
{"title":"Development and appplication of agent-bsed disease spread simulation model : The case of Suwon, Korea","authors":"Hyun-Jin Jung, Gisun Jung, Young Kim, Nokhaiz Tariq Khan, Yo-Han Kim, Y. Kim, Jinsoo Park","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8248005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8248005","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of diseases such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and avian influenza inflicts a significant socioeconomic problem, and highlights the need for a systematic analysis of disease spread patterns. In Korea, however, most domestic research utilize equation based approaches that treat the entire country as a single entity, providing limited applicability. In this study, we propose an agent-based disease diffusion model that reflects not only the nature of the disease, but also the structural and statistical characteristics of each region's population. Based on the 2010 Census data, we developed a synthetic population model of Suwon city in Korea. The spread of disease and various response strategies were analyzed based on the contact network based on the socioeconomic activities of residents. The proposed model is expected to play an important role in formulation of effective disease-related policies, reflecting the mobility and socio-economic structure of today's urban society.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117112985","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}
K. Matkovič, D. Gračanin, M. Duras, Reza Tasooji, Mohamed Handosa
{"title":"Explorative analysis in a preliminary phase of hybrid vehicle design by means of tangible interaction","authors":"K. Matkovič, D. Gračanin, M. Duras, Reza Tasooji, Mohamed Handosa","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8247916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8247916","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation is used often in the preliminary design phase when there are fewer control parameters thus making it feasible to use tangible visual analysis. Tangible user interfaces and interactions are realized by deploying real objects representing control parameters. Those objects can be moved and rotated in order to interact with computer and direct the visual analysis. We can take advantage of new technologies, such as Microsoft HoloLens, to provide a mixed reality based system for tangible visual analysis. Instead of using generic tokens, as the current state of the art does, we use semantic representatives that can function without augmentation. We also introduce the iconic view, integrated within a coordinated multiple views tool, which depicts input parameters. The iconic view can be used as an alternative to the tangible interface for input parameter specification. The preliminary results indicate that manipulating simulation parameters in a less abstract way helps the experts.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125907643","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}
Celine Kessler, L. Capocchi, J. Santucci, B. Zeigler
{"title":"Hierarchical Markov decision process based on DEVS formalism","authors":"Celine Kessler, L. Capocchi, J. Santucci, B. Zeigler","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2017.8247850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8247850","url":null,"abstract":"Markov decision processes (MDPs) have proven useful as models of stochastic planning and decision problems. To try to propose practical implementation of MDPs, hierarchical methods are often used in MDPs or reinforcement learning to delegate the optimization of the total problem to simpler hierarchical sub-problems. The goal of the paper is to propose a generic discrete-event based software Framework allowing to use hierarchical MDPs and reinforcement learning to solve planning or decision problems. The proposed approach has been validated using the “grid world” typical MDP use case.","PeriodicalId":145780,"journal":{"name":"2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124770672","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}