Erik Lindskog, Linus Lundh, Jonatan Berglund, Y. T. Lee, A. Skoogh, B. Johansson
{"title":"A method for determining the environmental footprint of industrial products using simulation","authors":"Erik Lindskog, Linus Lundh, Jonatan Berglund, Y. T. Lee, A. Skoogh, B. Johansson","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147926","url":null,"abstract":"Effective assessment and communication of the environmental footprint is increasingly important to process development and marketing purposes. Traditionally, static methods have been applied to analyze the environmental impact during a product's life cycle; however, they are unable to incorporate dynamic aspects of real world operations. This paper discusses a method using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to analyze production systems and simultaneously enable labeling of products' environmental footprint. The method steps include data management, determination of environmental footprint, and communication of the results. The method is developed during a case study of a job-shop-production facility. To evaluate the DES method, the DES results were compared with the results of a Simplified Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) conducted on the same production system. The case study demonstrates the possibility for the DES method to determine the variation between products in terms of the environmental footprint and highlights some of the difficulties involved.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129591514","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":"Using the levels of conceptual interoperability model and model-based data engineering to develop a modular interoperability framework","authors":"S. Diallo, A. Tolk, Jason Graff, Anthony Barraco","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147965","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes how to use the Levels of Conceptual Interoperability (LCIM) as the theoretical backbone for developing and implementing an interoperability framework that supports the exchange of XML-based languages used by M&S systems across the web. The principles of Model-based Data Engineering (MBDE) are integrated within the framework to support the interactions between systems across the layers of the LCIM. We present a use case that shows how the framework supports the interoperability of heterogeneous military systems.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129593483","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}
Yifei Ma, K. Bisset, Jiangzhuo Chen, S. Deodhar, M. Marathe
{"title":"Efficient implementation of complex interventions in large scale epidemic simulations","authors":"Yifei Ma, K. Bisset, Jiangzhuo Chen, S. Deodhar, M. Marathe","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147856","url":null,"abstract":"Realistic agent-based epidemic simulations usually involve a large scale social network containing individual details. The co-evolution of epidemic dynamics and human behavior requires the simulation systems to compute complex real-world interventions. Calls from public health policy makers for executing such simulation studies during a pandemic typically have tight deadlines. It is highly desirable to implement new interventions in existing high-performance epidemic simulations, with minimum development effort and limited performance degradation. Indemics is a database supported high-performance epidemic simulation framework, which enables complex intervention studies to be designed and executed within a short time. Unlike earlier approaches that implement new interventions inside the simulation engine, Indemics utilizes DBMS and reduces implementation effort from weeks to days. In this paper, we propose a methodology for modeling and predicting performance of Indemics-supported intervention studies. We demonstrate our methodology with experimental results.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129639818","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}
Tûba Aktaran-Kalayci, D. Goldsman, C. Alexopoulos, James R. Wilson
{"title":"On the mean-squared error of variance estimators for computer simulations","authors":"Tûba Aktaran-Kalayci, D. Goldsman, C. Alexopoulos, James R. Wilson","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147784","url":null,"abstract":"Given an output process generated by a steady-state simulation, we give expressions for the mean-squared error (MSE) of several well-known estimators of the associated variance parameter. The variance estimators are based on the method of nonoverlapping batch means and on the method of standardized time series applied to overlapping batch means. Under certain conditions, the resulting expressions are used to minimize the MSE with respect to the batch size, where the optimal batch size is expressed as a function of the simulation run length and certain moment properties of the output process. The ultimate objective is to exploit these results to construct new variance estimators with improved accuracy and efficiency, and to provide useful guidelines on setting the batch size in practice.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127088824","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}
C. Kuhlman, V. S. A. Kumar, M. Marathe, H. Mortveit, S. Swarup, Gaurav Tuli, S. Ravi, D. Rosenkrantz
{"title":"A general-purpose graph dynamical system modeling framework","authors":"C. Kuhlman, V. S. A. Kumar, M. Marathe, H. Mortveit, S. Swarup, Gaurav Tuli, S. Ravi, D. Rosenkrantz","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147758","url":null,"abstract":"We describe InterSim, a general purpose flexible framework for simulating graph dynamical systems (GDS) and their generalizations. GDS provide a powerful formalism to model and analyze agent-based systems (ABS) because there is a direct mapping between nodes and edges (which denote interactions) in a GDS and agents and interactions in an ABS, thereby providing InterSim with great expressive power. We describe the design, implementation, capabilities, and features of InterSim; e.g., it enables users to quickly produce simulations of ABS in many application domains. We present illustrative case studies that focus on the simulation of social phenomena. InterSim has been used to simulate networks with 4 million agents and to execute large parametric simulation studies.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127361321","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 methodological approach to manage WEEE recovery systems in a push/pull logic","authors":"M. Gallo, E. Romano, L. Santillo","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147827","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims at establishing a new management paradigm for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) collection and treatment networks, based on Lean Thinking methodological approaches. The objective is to maximize the WEEE recovery rate to effectively support the production of new products, creating on one side the conceptual basis of the Closed Loop Supply Chain, and on the other side minimizing the environmental impact of production processes in exploiting natural resources. The achievement of such results is supported by the application of a System Dynamics simulation approach.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129986681","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}
M. Loper, Amy E. Henninger, J. Diem, Mikel D. Petty, A. Tolk
{"title":"Educating the workforce: M&S professional education","authors":"M. Loper, Amy E. Henninger, J. Diem, Mikel D. Petty, A. Tolk","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6148087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6148087","url":null,"abstract":"As Modeling & Simulation (M&S) becomes increasingly important, there is a significant and growing need to educate and train M&S practitioners and researchers. The Department of Defense (DoD) has a growing need for an educated M&S workforce. This need includes users, developers, managers and executive-level personnel, which can effectively apply M&S to DoD requirements. While several universities offer academic M&S degree programs, the time and expense of earning these degrees often limit the number of people that go through these programs. Professional education is an alternative for gaining M&S skills and knowledge, and courses are offered by a range of university and commercial groups. The observations in this paper begin to outline both the need and available options for M&S professional education. This collection of position papers begins a conversation on the DoD's need for professional M&S education and how the M&S Body of Knowledge might fit within that strategy. These position papers are contributed in preparation of a panel discussion and edited for the supporting proceedings.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130134524","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 decision framework for energy use reduction initiatives in commercial buildings","authors":"Elie Azar, C. Menassa","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147808","url":null,"abstract":"Energy consumption in commercial buildings and the resulting production of green house gas emissions continues to be one of the major challenges facing the United States. With more than 80 percent of the energy consumed by buildings occurring during their operational phase, most policies and programs over the last decade have focused on the design requirements for new and renovated buildings to ensure reductions in energy use during building operation. These policies are primarily focusing on the technical aspect of building systems, ignoring the role played by occupants' behavior, and most importantly how to influence this behavior to reduce energy consumption. Various approaches have proven to be effective in inducing behavioral changes such as energy conservation campaigns, financial incentives, feedback techniques, and others. This paper presents an agent-based approach to modeling these methods, simulating their impact on occupants' behavior, and predicting their effect on building energy use and costs.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131063552","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}
Mohammadmahdi Alizadeh, H. Eskandari, S. M. Sajadifar, C. Geiger
{"title":"Analyzing a stochastic inventory system for deteriorating items with stochastic lead time using simulation modeling","authors":"Mohammadmahdi Alizadeh, H. Eskandari, S. M. Sajadifar, C. Geiger","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6147881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6147881","url":null,"abstract":"We consider an inventory system for continuous decaying items with stochastic lead time and Poisson demand. Shortage is allowed and all the unsatisfied demands are backlogged. Moreover, replenishment is one for one. Our objective is to minimize the long-run total expected cost of the system. Firstly, we have developed the mathematical model with deterministic lead time. Since the stochastic lead time makes the model complex especially when lead time has complicated probability distribution and it is difficult to prove convexity of the objective function, we have applied simulation modeling approach. The simulation model has no limitation on lead time or any other parameters. The simulation model is validated by comparing its outputs and analytical model's results for the deterministic lead time case. Furthermore, we use optimizer module of the applied software to find near optimal solutions for a number of examples with stochastic lead time.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126936731","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":"Calibration of urban rail simulation models: A methodology using SPSA algorithm","authors":"Zhigao Wang, H. Koutsopoulos","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2011.6148063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2011.6148063","url":null,"abstract":"Rail simulation model calibration is a process of adjusting model parameters while comparing model output with observations from the real rail system. There is a lack of systematic methodology for calibrating urban rail simulation models. Based on a simulator developed for urban rail operations and control, the paper demonstrates a methodology of calibrating model parameters, and specifically, fine-tuning some of the simulation inputs. The calibration process is modeled as a multi-variate optimization problem and solved by the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) algorithm. A case study of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line shows that the methodology improves the simulation model dramatically in terms of replicating the track block runtimes. At the same time, it upgrades the station specific dwell time parameters and enhances a-priori boarding rates at stations fairly effectively.","PeriodicalId":246140,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951956","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}