Danielle F. Morey, Z. Zabinsky, C. Wakayama, Randall Plate
{"title":"Multi-Fidelity Modeling For The Design Of A Maritime Environmental Survey Network Utilizing Unmanned Underwater Vehicles","authors":"Danielle F. Morey, Z. Zabinsky, C. Wakayama, Randall Plate","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715365","url":null,"abstract":"New maritime operational concepts are being considered for future network topologies that are efficient and reliable in underwater domains where the design of networking is challenging due to the harshness of the environment. Various communication and network simulation tools exist to model scenarios of interest and evaluate metrics of interest, e.g., latency, throughput and reliability, for high-fidelity evaluations. However, the computation time required for high-fidelity simulation is extensive for evaluating many network topologies associated with topology optimization. Thus we develop low-fidelity models to explore many network topologies and identify a few Pareto optimal configurations to evaluate with the high-fidelity simulation. In this paper, we demonstrate a multi-fidelity topology optimization methodology for maritime environmental survey operations involving multiple unmanned underwater vehicles. The low-fidelity models developed for this maritime operation scenario are able to accurately identify the intuitive optimal solution based on multiple objectives, which are then validated by high-fidelity simulations.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"63 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116381184","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 Openmodelica Environment for Building Digital Twins of Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems","authors":"P. Fritzson","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715443","url":null,"abstract":"The Modelica modeling language and technology is being warmly received by the world community in modeling and simulation with major applications in virtual prototyping and digital twins of complex cyber-physical systems, which mix physical system dynamics with software (cyber) and networks. It is enabling a revolution in this area, based on its ease of use, visual design of models with combination of lego-like predefined model building blocks, its ability to define model libraries with reusable components, its support for modeling and simulation of complex applications involving parts from several application domains, and many more useful facilities. Adoption is further strengthened by the freely available open source OpenModelica environment for building digital twins and virtual prototypes as well as system analysis and optimization, especially relevant in transforming society into sustainability including applications in renewable energy and fossil-free transportation. This paper gives an overview of this technology as well as some applications.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123475145","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}
Teresa Marquardt, Catherine Cleophas, Lucy E. Morgan
{"title":"Indolence is Fatal: Research Opportunities in Designing Digital Shadows and Twins for Decision Support","authors":"Teresa Marquardt, Catherine Cleophas, Lucy E. Morgan","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715332","url":null,"abstract":"Digital twins and shadows have gained increasing popularity in industry and research. The terms describe simulation systems that mirror real-world systems, such as service or manufacturing lines, aligned to (near) perfection based on automated data streams. We implement a set of perfect model experiments to demonstrate how deviations between a digital shadow and the real world can arise, affect predictive accuracy, and may be eliminated. As an illustrative example, we simulate a simple sequential production line and its digital shadow. The paper concludes with a summary of identified research opportunities.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123491654","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, Sergio Martinez-Abad, Aitor Ballano, J. Faulin, M. Rabe, Jorge L. Chicaiza-Vaca
{"title":"A Hybrid Modeling Approach for Automated Parcel Lockers as a Last-Mile Delivery Scheme: A Case Study in Pamplona (Spain)","authors":"Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, Sergio Martinez-Abad, Aitor Ballano, J. Faulin, M. Rabe, Jorge L. Chicaiza-Vaca","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715337","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, last-mile distribution in cities has been constrained by fast-delivery options, hard time windows, and no-show-up customers. The promotion of automated parcel locker (APL) systems is seen as a way to mitigate the aforementioned problems. Thus, this paper analyzes APL users in the city of Pamplona (Spain), and proposes the use of hybrid modeling for APL network design. Moreover, agent-based modeling is used to estimate future demand based on a number of socio-economic parameters, i.e., population, e-commerce growth rates, among others. Likewise, the APL location optimization model is dynamically executed within the simulation framework to minimize the operational and service costs. Our hybrid methodology forecasts an increase of eShoppers by 10%, while the number of APLs increases up to 500% in a 3-year time horizon. In light of those results, the use of simulation and optimization tools leverages the promotion of APLs as a last-mile distribution scheme.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"259 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121955933","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}
Joachim Hunker, Alexander Wuttke, Anne Antonia Scheidler, M. Rabe
{"title":"A Farming-for-Mining-Framework to Gain Knowledge in Supply Chains","authors":"Joachim Hunker, Alexander Wuttke, Anne Antonia Scheidler, M. Rabe","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715372","url":null,"abstract":"Gaining knowledge from a given data basis is a complex challenge. One of the frequently used methods in the context of a supply chain (SC) is knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). For a purposeful and successful knowledge discovery, valid and preprocessed input data are necessary. Besides preprocessing collected observational data, simulation can be used to generate a data basis as an input for the knowledge discovery process. The process of using a simulation model as a data generator is called data farming. This paper investigates the link between data farming and data mining. We developed a Farming-for-Mining-Framework, where we highlight requirements of knowledge discovery techniques and derive how the simulation model for data generation can be configured accordingly, e.g., to meet the required data accuracy. We suggest that this is a promising approach and is worth further research attention.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129384032","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}
Joshua D. Priest, Aparna Kishore, Lucas Machi, C. Kuhlman, D. Machi, Sujith Ravi
{"title":"CSonNet: An Agent-Based Modeling Software System for Discrete Time Simulation","authors":"Joshua D. Priest, Aparna Kishore, Lucas Machi, C. Kuhlman, D. Machi, Sujith Ravi","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715287","url":null,"abstract":"Contagion dynamics on networks are used to study many problems, including disease and virus epidemics, incarceration, obesity, protests and rebellions, needle sharing in drug use, and hurricane and other natural disaster events. Simulators to study these problems range from smaller-scale serial codes to large-scale distributed systems. In recent years, Python-based simulation systems have been built. In this work, we describe a new Python-based agent-based simulator called CSonNet. It differs from codes such as Epidemics on Networks in that it performs discrete time simulations based on the graph dynamical systems formalism. CSonNet is a parallel code; it implements concurrency through an embarrassingly parallel approach of running multiple simulation instances on a user-specified number of forked processes. It has a modeling framework whereby agent models are composed using a set of pre-defined state transition rules. We provide strong-scaling performance results and case studies to illustrate its features.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128475259","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}
Semya Elaoud, Ruaridh Williamson, Begun Efeoglu Sanli, Dennis Xenos
{"title":"Multi-Objective Parallel Batch Scheduling In Wafer Fabs With Job Timelink Constraints","authors":"Semya Elaoud, Ruaridh Williamson, Begun Efeoglu Sanli, Dennis Xenos","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715465","url":null,"abstract":"We consider multi-objective batch scheduling in the complex flexible job shop problem applied to semi-conductor wafer fabs. Batches have different operating costs and consecutive steps of a job are constrained with timelinks. We also consider several other process aspects that arise in semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities such as flexible machine downtime, incompatible job families, different job sizes and parallel machines. The aim is to minimize the total weighted batching cost, queuing time, and the number of violations of timelink constraints. We present a hybrid two-stage solution strategy, combining Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models and heuristics. At a high level, the proposed approach can be broken down into “constructive” and “improvement” steps. The comparison of Flexciton schedules evaluated under uncertainty against factory schedules when solving large industrial instances shows the significant improvements that our solution can bring.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128726017","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 Modeling and Simulation For Business and Management: A Review and Tutorial","authors":"B. Onggo, Joël Foramitti","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715352","url":null,"abstract":"Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) has become one of the most popular simulation methods. It has been applied to a wide range of application areas including business and management. This article introduces ABMS and explains how it can support management decision making. It covers key concepts and the modeling process. AgentPy is used to show the software implementation of the concepts. This article also provides a literature review on ABMS in business and management research using bibliometric analysis and content analysis. It shows that there has been an increase in the research that uses ABMS and identifies several research clusters across management disciplines such as strategic management, marketing management, operations and supply chain management, financial management, and risk management.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"35 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129913185","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. Rabe, Jorge L. Chicaiza-Vaca, R. D. Tordecilla, L. D. C. Martins, A. Juan
{"title":"Supporting Hospital Logistics During the First Months of The COVID-19 Crisis: A Simheuristic for the Stochastic Team Orienteering Problem","authors":"M. Rabe, Jorge L. Chicaiza-Vaca, R. D. Tordecilla, L. D. C. Martins, A. Juan","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715335","url":null,"abstract":"The unexpected crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused that items such as face shields and ear savers were highly demanded. In the Barcelona area, hundreds of volunteers employed their home 3D-printers to produce these elements. After the lockdown, they had to be collected by a reduced group of volunteer drivers, who transported them to several consolidation centers. These activities required a daily agile design of efficient routes, especially considering that routes should not exceed a maximum time threshold to minimize drivers' exposure. These constraints limit the number of houses that could be visited. Moreover, travel and service times are considered as random variables. This logistics challenge is modeled as a stochastic team orienteering problem. Our main performance indicator is the collected reward, which should be maximized. This problem is solved by employing a biased-randomized simheuristic algorithm, which is capable of generating high-quality solutions in short computing times.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129919006","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":"An Uncertainty Quantification Approach For Agent-Based Modeling Of Human Behavior In Networked Anagram Games","authors":"Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, C. Kuhlman","doi":"10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715350","url":null,"abstract":"In a group anagram game, players are provided letters to form as many words as possible. They can also request letters from their neighbors and reply to letter requests. Currently, a single agent-based model is produced from all experimental data, with dependence only on number of neighbors. In this work, we build, exercise, and evaluate enhanced agent behavior models for networked group anagram games under an uncertainty quantification framework. Specifically, we cluster game data for players based on their skill levels (forming words, requesting letters, and replying to requests), perform multinomial logistic regression for transition probabilities, and quantify uncertainty within each cluster. The result of this process is a model where players are assigned different numbers of neighbors and different skill levels in the game. We conduct simulations of ego agents with neighbors to demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed methods.","PeriodicalId":369368,"journal":{"name":"2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122351808","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}