{"title":"Tutorial: Tips for successful practice of simulation","authors":"D. Sturrock","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2012.6465311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2012.6465311","url":null,"abstract":"A simulation project is much more than building a model and the skills required for success go well beyond knowing a particular simulation tool. A 30 year veteran discusses some important steps to enable project success and some cautions and tips to help avoid common traps. This content is similar to presentations given at previous WSC conferences.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126528709","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":"Automatic generation of route networks for microscopic traffic simulations","authors":"N. Feldkamp, S. Strassburger","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020126","url":null,"abstract":"Microscopic traffic simulation is a well-accepted simulation approach for simulation problems where the effects of individual driver behavior and/or vehicle interactions need to be taken into account at a fairly detailed level. Such problems include the optimization of traffic light controls patterns or the design of lane layouts at intersections. Such simulation models typically require very detailed and accurate models of the underlying road networks. The manual creation of such networks constitutes a high effort, limiting the simulated area in practical applications to the absolutely necessary. With the increased availability of satellite based geographical data we investigate, if and how such data can be automatically transformed into route networks with adequate level of detail for microscopic traffic simulation models. We further outline the design of data structures for an extensible simulation framework for microscopic traffic simulation which is capable of including different types of publically available data sources.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125800409","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":"Role based interoperability approaches within LVC federations","authors":"Charles D. Turnitsa","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020077","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of the magic circle, frequently referenced in the serious gaming community, is explained and then shown to be a possible perspective to view live-virtual-constructive (LVC) simulation federations. This view opens the method of categorizing different roles and data capabilities for the various elements and actors within an LVC federation. The applicability of this view is shown in some explanatory detail, including a description of its applicability to simulations, the different types of roles, and the variety of knowledge (procedural and propositional) that can be qualified when the federation is viewed this way. Structured identification of the federation elements and the data they are exchanging is relied on to describe peculiar data interoperability issues that exist within current LVC federation architectures, and which may also affect future LVC federation architectures currently under development.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115790593","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":"MASOS: A multi-agent system simulation framework for sustainable supplier evaluation and order allocation","authors":"P. Ghadimi, C. Heavey","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019971","url":null,"abstract":"Purchasing activities consume more than half of manufacturing and trading organizations sales capitals. Effective procurement is tied with efficient and highly accurate collection of data needed for purchasing the right material with the acceptable quality from appropriate suppliers. Supply chain management (SCM) consists of complex networks of distributed actors in which the problem of identifying the appropriate suppliers and allocating optimal order quantities based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) attributes is strategically important. However, implementation of an autonomous and automated assessment that can incorporate dynamics and uncertainty of the whole supply chain during the assessment period is not addressed. In the current research paper, a novel framework is designed and proposed to narrow the aforementioned gap. Agent technology has been incorporated in the developed framework to decrease the supplier chain uncertainty by decreasing human interactions and automating the process of supplier evaluation and order allocation.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131352477","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":"SNAT: Simulation-based search for navigation safety. The case of Singapore Strait","authors":"Xingyi Chen, Giulia Pedrielli, S. Ng","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020030","url":null,"abstract":"As the bottleneck of the shipping routes from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, the Singapore Strait is handling high daily traffic volume. In order to enhance navigational safety and reduce collisions at sea, several approaches have been proposed. However, most of the contributions adopt deterministic algorithms, failing to consider the stochasticity due to human behaviors of ship captains. Moreover, the effectiveness of these approaches is hindered by the fact that their focus is on providing a globally optimal safe set of trajectories to all vessels involved in encounter situations, almost neglecting each captain's perspective. We propose Safe Navigation Assistance Tool (SNAT), a simulation-based search algorithm to assist the captain by suggesting highly safe and robust maneuver strategies for conflict avoidance. Extensive numerical experimentation were performed proving the effectiveness of SNAT in reducing the number of conflicts, with respect to real data provided by the Automatic Identification System (AIS).","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130202269","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":"Cloud manufacturing application in semiconductor industry","authors":"Xinghao Wu, F. Qiao, K. Poon","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020081","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to shed some light on how the concept of cloud manufacturing has been applied to the semiconductor manufacturing operations. It starts with describing the challenges to the semiconductor manufacturing due to evolving of outsourcing business model in global context, then discusses the different forms of cloud manufacturing and proposes the semiconductor industry oriented architecture for cloud manufacturing. Serus is used as a case study to share how the cloud manufacturing has created the values for the customer and its outsourced suppliers in the semiconductor industry.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134123614","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":"Multisection: Parallelized bisection","authors":"Stephen Pallone, P. Frazier, S. Henderson","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020205","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a one-dimensional bisection method for finding the zero of a function, where function evaluations can be performed asynchronously in a parallel computing environment. Using dynamic programming, we characterize the Bayes-optimal policy for sequentially choosing points at which to query the function. In choosing these points, we face a trade-off between aggressively reducing the search space in the short term, and maintaining a desirable spread of queries in the long-term. Our results provide insight on how this trade-off is affected by function evaluation times, risk preferences, and computational budget.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131164082","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}
Pau Fonseca i Casas, Esteve Codina Sancho, Lídia Montero Mercadé, M. Linares, Cristina Montañola-Sales
{"title":"Formal and operational validation of a bus stop public transport network micro simulation","authors":"Pau Fonseca i Casas, Esteve Codina Sancho, Lídia Montero Mercadé, M. Linares, Cristina Montañola-Sales","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019925","url":null,"abstract":"We present a detailed simulation model with the purpose of analyzing the congestion and interaction between bus lines and passengers at stops. Our main goal is to perform a complete validation of a simulation model formalized in a standard language in order to use it as a basis to perform more complex experiments. The basis of the model is a queuing model that leads us to perform an operational validation. Since the model is completely represented using a formal language, the specialist can perform a formal validation of the model previously to any implementation. Thanks to the modular structure of the formal language used to define the model, the model can be easily expanded to represent more complex systems. Due to a formal representation, the implementation process can be done automatically implying that analysts should only be concerned about the correct definition of the diagrams that represent the model behavior.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132162918","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":"From simulations to interactive numerical laboratories","authors":"A. Szalay","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019948","url":null,"abstract":"High Performance Computing is becoming an instrument in its own right. The largest simulations performed on our supercomputers are now approaching petabytes. As the volume of these simulations is growing, it is becoming harder to access, analyze and visualize these data. At the same time for a broad community buy in we need to provide public access to some of the simulation results. This is becoming another Big Data challenge, where we have to move the analyses and visualizations right where the data is. The paper will discuss the challenges in creating such interactive numerical laboratories.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115553268","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 analysis of the Control Point Policy for semiconductor fab lines producing multiple part types","authors":"Talha Liaqat, Y. Jang","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020097","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce a new modified version of the scheduling approach, Control Point Policy (CPP) for semiconductor wafer fabrication lines and compare its performance with the popular Earliest Due Date (EDD), Minimum Slack (MS) and Critical Ratio (CR) scheduling policies. Discrete event modeling and simulations are created to evaluate the performance of CPP for three important performance measures; cycle times, waiting times and inventory levels. New insights for system performance are developed with the implementation of CPP at bottleneck stations and the introduction of finite size buffers between all the workstations. Our simulation results demonstrate the ability of CPP to achieve lowest cycle times with minimum inventory levels for situations where products with similar process characteristics are prioritized over each other. Our simulation experiments show that the CPP generates good system performance for environments where multiple products at different processing stages compete for limited resources.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115633256","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}