{"title":"A case of a modelled saturation level for cooperative flight departures","authors":"Nina Schefers, J. J. González, Jenaro Nosedal","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093762","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to increasing air traffic operations, the development of advanced decision support tools (DSTs) in air traffic management (ATM) is driven forward to guarantee that sustainable transport logistics balance airspace capacity with user demands. In this paper, the tuning of calculated-take-off times (CTOTs) as a tool for mitigating the propagation of perturbations between trajectories in dense sectors is analysed. The proposed methodology uses a powerful tool for predicting potential spatio-temporal concurrence events between trajectories over the European airspace. In the first place, the aim is to remove the detected concurrence events by considering bounded time stamp adjustments on strategic agreed points of the aircraft trajectory. In the second place, the model is extended to identify route interdependencies of over constraint topologies that could lead to a saturation event. The approach is based on a robust constraint programming model aiming to determine the feasible time stamp changes considering reference based trajectories (RBTs).","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129665204","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}
A. Trujillo-Mata, Guillermo Cortes Robles, Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez, J. Blanco-Fernández, E. Macías
{"title":"System dynamics for the water footprint assessment and simulation in the bioethanol production","authors":"A. Trujillo-Mata, Guillermo Cortes Robles, Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez, J. Blanco-Fernández, E. Macías","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093759","url":null,"abstract":"The bioethanol industry is one of the growing sectors worldwide which is seeking for sustainability along its supply chain. The increasing demand for bioethanol makes this industry face a conflict: to increase productivity without compromising the future natural resources such as water. This work proposes to integrate the water footprint assessment methodology to the supply chain analysis using system dynamics. In this paper, the application of the synergy is to assess and simulate the water footprint of the bioethanol production stages using the system dynamics methodology. System dynamics could be a useful approach to model and simulate the water footprint of bioethanol supply chain and estimate its impact on water resources for the succeeding years.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124980063","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":"Analysis of fraud controls using the PaySim financial simulator","authors":"E. A. Lopez-Rojas, Stefan Axelsson, D. Baca","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093756","url":null,"abstract":"Fraud controls for financial transactions are needed and required by law enforcement agencies to flag suspicious criminal activity. These controls, however, require deeper analysis of the effective ...","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124816335","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}
Philipp Fleck, M. Kommenda, Thorsten Prante, M. Affenzeller
{"title":"Novel robustness measures for engineering design optimisation","authors":"Philipp Fleck, M. Kommenda, Thorsten Prante, M. Affenzeller","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093757","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents novel robustness measures to analyse and compare the robustness of solutions for constrained optimisation problems in the field of engineering design optimisation. First, we define uncertainty in production processes and present a method to quantify uncertainty. Based on the variations of a solution that are introduced by uncertainty, we want to assess the robustness of those solutions towards those variations. We show how a solution's quality and feasibility (with regards to constraint violation) change with increasing uncertainty and discuss how those changes determine the robustness of that solution. Furthermore, we present a method of aggregating that information into a single, real-valued robustness measure. This novel robustness measure can be used to select solutions that have a high robustness along with a high quality. To test the presented measures extensively, we apply them to various solutions for benchmark problems from published literature in the field of engineering design optimisation.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129374484","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":"Simulation of counter drugs operations based on geospatial technology for use in a military training simulator","authors":"O. Robert, C. Kumsap, A. Janpengpen","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093754","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports the adoption of potential surface analysis (PSA) to model drug trafficking routes in Thailand for military training scenarios of a small-arms simulator. GIS data layers were used for analytic hierarchy process. Experts were gathered to brainstorm for potential factors and their ratings based on knowledge, expertise and judgments. Physical, drug-aspect and socio-demographic factors were main factors and further separated into sub-factors. The consistency ratio (CR) was calculated at 0.09, the significance of the factors became less than 0.10, making the consistency acceptable. The PSA revealed potential drug-trafficking routes that were cross-checked with genuine routes. The created military training scenarios were validated by experienced military and security officials. The averaged satisfaction of 3.92 with the standard deviation of 0.75 confirms that the integrated methodology of modelling drug trafficking routes using potential surface analysis is another optional approach to upgrade the military small-arms training simulator.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"1207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131342570","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}
António A. C. Vieira, L. Dias, Guilherme A. B. Pereira, J. A. Oliveira, M. Carvalho, P. Martins
{"title":"Simulation model generation for warehouse management: case study to test different storage strategies","authors":"António A. C. Vieira, L. Dias, Guilherme A. B. Pereira, J. A. Oliveira, M. Carvalho, P. Martins","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.10014990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.10014990","url":null,"abstract":"A simulation model generator was developed to help a company of the Bosch Group to reduce costs in time and space with its warehouse. The simulation models are automatically created in Simio and can simulate pickers riding milk runs to collect containers from the warehouse, to satisfy the needs of production lines, assisting warehouse management by testing different storage strategies. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present the developed generator and to use it in a case study, to test different storage policies for the company. The generator was validated, as was the simulation model automatically created. With this tool, some suggestions could be made to the company in question. Namely, it was shown that it would not be possible to maintain the FIFO rule and, at the same time, eliminate the upper floor of all racks for ergonomic reasons. To allow this, the rate of replacing containers should be synchronised with the needs of production lines. Alternatively, it was also shown that the performance of the warehouse would improve by dividing it into zones allocated to each milk run.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128897443","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}
Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, P. Hirsch, J. Faulin, Christian Fikar
{"title":"The role of horizontal cooperation to improve service quality in last-mile distribution","authors":"Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, P. Hirsch, J. Faulin, Christian Fikar","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093753","url":null,"abstract":"Horizontal cooperation has revealed itself as a new catalyser for goods distribution optimisation in order to achieve greater efficiency. Moreover, urban distribution is facing a new paradigm as e-commerce is growing rapidly and traffic restrictions in inner cities are becoming more frequent. While the economic benefit derived from the application of horizontal cooperation has been widely analysed by practitioners and in academia, this paper assesses the impact of horizontal cooperation on service quality in a business-to-business relationship. An agent-based simulation model is presented to measure savings in lead times due to various horizontal cooperation agreements under consideration of trust related factors. Additionally, the effect of the store-wholesaler topology is investigated, providing meaningful insights on the potentials of horizontal cooperation. Results of computational experiments show that cooperation enables companies to reduce lead times substantially, which increases service quality and competitiveness.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116040241","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}
J. Youssef, G. Zacharewicz, David Chen, Zhiying Tu
{"title":"Enterprise operating system framework: federated interoperability based on HLA","authors":"J. Youssef, G. Zacharewicz, David Chen, Zhiying Tu","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093760","url":null,"abstract":"Operating system (OS) is a well-known concept in computer science as an interface between human and computer hardware (MacOS, Windows, IOS, Android). In the perspective of developing future generation of enterprise systems based on IoT and cyber-physical system principles, this paper proposes to develop an enterprise operating system (EOS) that will act as an interface between enterprise business managers and enterprise resources performing enterprise operations. The paper presents at first a set of requirements and functionalities of EOS. Then a survey on existing relevant works is given and mapped to the requirements. After that the existing models related to the federated enterprise interoperability are presented. The architectures of envisioned EOS and the federated interoperability are outlined. The last part draws some conclusions and gives future perspectives.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133751177","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":"Setting up a serious game for major incident in industrial plants management: investigation of the learning effect","authors":"I. Ferretti, L. Mazzoldi, S. Zanoni, L. Zavanella","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093758","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the introduction of virtual simulation allowed to improve the management of major incidents by developing tools (or serious games) able to increase awareness of coordination and decision-making abilities in emergency situations. This study presents the results of a new serious game that simulates activities, procedures and processes planned to be implemented to manage the aid during a major incident that may occur in industrial plants. In particular, the serious game presented is based on a discrete event simulator and it is able to reproduce emergency situations in which the players can improve their own management abilities through repetitive random sessions. A detailed analysis of the learning effect over different scenario settings has been investigated through the initial application of the tool to differently experienced set of users. The results presented in this contribution show how the use of the simulator may significantly improve the awareness of coordination and decision-making abilities in emergency situations.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123884192","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":"Numerical simulation of a cinema fire based on FDS","authors":"Zhi-an Huang, Yaru Meng, Rui Yang, Yukun Gao, Yinghua Zhang, Shuyi Wang","doi":"10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093093","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, large-scale fire dynamics simulator (FDS) model software was used to simulate a cinema fire. The reliability of the simulation results was verified by comparison with relevant research results and some fire precaution measures were put forward. Based on the physical fire model of 1:1, full-scale simulation of a cinema fire was carried out. By studying the flue gas, temperature and variation law of the CO concentration during the fire, it is found that the mechanical air-intake damages the stratification of smoke and air in the burning room to a certain extent. The lower air in the theatre is mixed with the upper high-temperature flue gas so that the temperature of lower air is higher than that of upper air. Meanwhile, the mechanical air-intake enhances the reducing speed of visibility. The results of this research provide a reference for the fire protection design of cinemas.","PeriodicalId":266151,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Simul. Process. Model.","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127686891","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}