Rachel T. Johnson, B. Jones, J. Fowler, D. Montgomery
{"title":"Comparing designs for computer simulation experiments","authors":"Rachel T. Johnson, B. Jones, J. Fowler, D. Montgomery","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736101","url":null,"abstract":"The use of simulation as a modeling and analysis tool is wide spread. Simulation is an enabling tool for experimenting virtually on a validated computer environment. Often the underlying function for the results of a computer simulation experiment has too much curvature to be adequately modeled by a low order polynomial. In such cases finding an appropriate experimental design is not easy. This research uses prediction variance over the volume of the design region to evaluate computer simulation experiments assuming the modeler is interested in fitting a second order polynomial or a Gaussian process model to the response data. Both space-filling and optimal designs are considered.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124871210","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":"Business process based simulation: a powerful tool for demand analysis of business process reengineering and information system implementation","authors":"Linlin Cui, Y. Chai, Yi Liu","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736253","url":null,"abstract":"Demand analysis is of fundamentally importance in the implementation of information system. Business process reengineering (BPR) often gets involved in the process of demand analysis and play a crucial role in the achievement of project objectives. Business process based simulation (BPS) provides a precise and visual method to analyze and compare the concerned performances before and after BPR. The paper presents an industrial experience in using the BPS tool to demonstrate the effects of BPR on restraining stocking-up and overdue payments in the distribution management of a supply chain. Before significant investment involved, the related design result of BPR is validated both by the analytical method and simulation experiments. Based on the mutual supportive results, the BPS method approves its correctness and show its nicety, flexibility and the capacity of visualization.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124953962","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":"Discrete event simulation aids new Lean Production System at Mimeo.com","authors":"Paul D. Babin, Gozde Agirbas","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736418","url":null,"abstract":"Mimeo.com is employing several new Lean Production System concepts in its new expansion plant start-up. Building on several successful Discrete Event Simulations using ProModel, the company employed a new model to simulate the material flow in the new plant design. This case study illustrates how simulations can be used effectively to plan, analyze and communicate new concepts prior to deploying them in production.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"320 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122986158","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":"Infectious disease Control policy: A role for simulation","authors":"M. Brandeau","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736240","url":null,"abstract":"Control of infectious diseases is a key global health priority. This paper describes the role that simulation can play in evaluating policies for infectious disease control. We describe ongoing simulation studies in three different areas: HIV prevention and treatment, contact tracing, and hepatitis B prevention and control.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122725279","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":"Criminal cycles in the illegal drug industry: A system dynamics approach applied to Colombia","authors":"Sebastián Jaén, I. Dyner","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736220","url":null,"abstract":"The coca farming dynamics seem to partially follow the patterns of a long war against organized crime in Colombian. Since the early 80s, the cocaine market in the US and the rest of the world has been mainly supplied by Colombian cartels. Consequently, these illegal organizations have been targeted by Colombian and American law enforcement agencies. Our work argues that such policy has had a counter-intuitive effect which has contributed to increases in coca farming and reductions in cocaine prices. This paper hypothesizes that such situation was the consequence of the way that drug cartels were dismantled - thus the Colombian paradox. The consequences of the war against cartels may be assessed with the support of a dynamic theoretical framework and SD. This research assesses alternative policy for dismantling drug cartels.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125414573","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":"Discrete stochastic optimization using linear interpolation","authors":"Honggang Wang, B. Schmeiser","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736106","url":null,"abstract":"We consider discrete stochastic optimization problems where the objective function can only be estimated by a simulation oracle; the oracle is defined only at the discrete points. We propose a method using continuous search with simplex interpolation to solve a wide class of problems. A retrospective framework provides a sequence of deterministic approximating problems that can be solved using continuous optimization techniques that guarantee desirable convergence properties. Numerical experiments show that our method finds the optimal solutions for discrete stochastic optimization problems orders of magnitude faster than existing random search algorithms.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125896965","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 systems engineering process supporting the development of operational requirements driven federations","authors":"A. Tolk, Thomas G. Litwin, R. Kewley","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a systems engineering process utilizing the conceptual artifacts of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) describing platform independent views of models to capture operational requirements, to derive essential tasks, and to combine these tasks into scenarios and vignettes with attributed metrics. This model-independent mission description is then used to identify supporting simulation services that implement the identified military means and capabilities to perform the tasks in the given context. Once the services are identified, the necessary simulation middleware to federate the services is identified and the interfaces are configured using the technical artifacts of the MDA describing platform specific views of systems. This systems engineering process provided support for simulation development for the US Army¿s Program Executive Office - Soldier.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129972563","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":"Optimized maintenance design for manufacturing performance improvement using simulation","authors":"Ahad Ali, Xiaohui Chen, Zimin Yang, J. Lee, J. Ni","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736270","url":null,"abstract":"This research presents optimized maintenance design using simulation to analyze the capability of auto part manufacturing production system. The integration of simulation and optimization is used to identify critical stations, an optimal system design and maintenance scheduling schemes and evaluates their effects on the overall system performance. Most emphasis is focused on the impact on system by individual station reliability and the fluctuation of maintenance availability. The proposed simulation and optimization for maintenance design is validated through real-life application. This simulation modeling and optimization could help for manufacturing performance improvement.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129629100","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":"Determining an appropriate number of FOUPs in semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities","authors":"J. Zimmermann, S. Mason, J. Fowler, L. Mönch","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736315","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, multiple orders per job type formation and release strategies are described for semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities (wafer fabs). Different orders are grouped into one job because orders of an individual customer very often fill only a portion of a front-opening unified pod (FOUP). A FOUP is assigned to each job and is used to move the job throughout the wafer fab after the job formation. We determine an appropriate number of FOUPs for a given order release rate that will yield acceptable values for on-time delivery performance, cycle time, and throughput via discrete event simulation.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130163618","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":"Beta approximations for bridge sampling","authors":"P. Glasserman, K. Kim","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2008.4736115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736115","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the problem of simulating X conditional on the value of X+Y, when X and Y are independent positive random variables. We propose approximate methods for sampling (X|X+Y) by approximating the fraction (X/z|X+ Y=z) with a beta random variable. We discuss applications to Levy processes and infinitely divisible distributions, and we report numerical tests for Poisson processes, tempered stable processes, and the Heston stochastic volatility model.","PeriodicalId":162289,"journal":{"name":"2008 Winter Simulation Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128666672","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}