Rafael Florencio da Silva Costa, Angelo A. de M. Freitas, Celso F. Araujo, Cláudio Duarte Pinto Limoeiro, Daniel Barry Fuller
{"title":"Simulation model for regional oil derivatives pipeline networks considering batch scheduling and restricted storage capacity","authors":"Rafael Florencio da Silva Costa, Angelo A. de M. Freitas, Celso F. Araujo, Cláudio Duarte Pinto Limoeiro, Daniel Barry Fuller","doi":"10.5555/2693848.2694101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/2693848.2694101","url":null,"abstract":"Oil refining companies and distributors often use pipelines to transport their products. In highly integrated, geographically challenging contexts, this may result in complex logistical systems. Pipelines which transport multiple products connect tanks, forming a particular, self-contained environment where distribution routes (called logistical channels), tactical inventory locations and operational criteria are defined to transfer, receive and deliver liquid oil derivatives. This paper describes a simulation model designed to represent such a regional pipeline network and includes a case study of a Brazilian region with refineries, a maritime terminal, a hub terminal and distribution bases.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"24 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":"123904651","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}
L. Rabelo, Liliana Cruz, Sayli Bhide, O. Joledo, J. Pastrana, P. Xanthopoulos
{"title":"Analysis of the Expansion of the Panama Canal using simulation modeling and artificial intelligence","authors":"L. Rabelo, Liliana Cruz, Sayli Bhide, O. Joledo, J. Pastrana, P. Xanthopoulos","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019951","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents preliminary analysis of the Panama Canal Expansion from the viewpoint of salinity in the Gatun Lake and the utilization of neural networks. This analysis utilized simulation modeling and artificial intelligence. We have built several discrete and system dynamics simulation models of the current Panama Canal operations and the future expansion which have been validated with historical and projected data and Turing/expert validation by engineers of the Panama Canal Authority. The simulation models have been exercised in order to generate enough information about the future expansion. This information has been used to develop neural networks that have the capability to indicate the volume of the Gatun Lake and its respective salinity taking into consideration lockages, spillovers, hydropower generation, fresh water supply volumes, and environmental factors such as precipitation, tides, and evaporation. Support vector machines were used to build time series regression models of the evaporation of Gatun Lake.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"112 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":"124273425","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":"(Almost) present at the creation: 25 years of modelling and simulation in semiconductor manufacturing","authors":"R. Uzsoy","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020094","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Over the last three decades an extensive research literature on modelling and simulation applications in the semiconductor industry has developed. Extensive relationships between academic research groups and industry have also been in evidence. This presentation will briefly review the evolution of modelling and analysis research in semiconductor manufacturing from an academic perspective, discuss its implications for academic research and industrial practice, and suggest a number of future directions for research and for more effective industry-university collaboration.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"91 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":"126170959","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":"Short-interval expository real-time scheduling of semiconductor manufacturing with mixed integer programming","authors":"M. Ham, Siyoung Choi","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020093","url":null,"abstract":"Efficiently managing the production speed of multiple competing products in semiconductor manufacturing facilities is extremely important from the line management standpoint. Industries have exploited the real time dispatching (RTD) to cope with the problem for the last decade, but the top tier companies have started looking at modern scheduling techniques based on mathematical modeling. We provide real-time scheduling based on mixed integer programming (MIP) capturing the salient characteristics such as shift production targets, machine dedication, sequence-dependent setups, foup queue time, foup priority, schedule stability, etc. Then the reason of specific sequence of foup schedule is communicated to the floor through a self-expository Gantt-Chart. The computer code is written in ezDFS/OPL which provides an all-in-one environment of data manipulation, optimization model development, solving, post processing, and visualization.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"7 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":"126031123","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}
Ilaria Barletta, J. Andersson, B. Johansson, Gökan May, M. Taisch
{"title":"Assessing a proposal for an energy-based Overall Equipment Effectiveness indicator through Discrete Event Simulation","authors":"Ilaria Barletta, J. Andersson, B. Johansson, Gökan May, M. Taisch","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019968","url":null,"abstract":"New challenges demand that manufacturing companies adopt sustainable approaches and succeed in this adoption. Energy efficiency plays a key role in achieving sustainability goals, and performance indicators are necessary beyond measurement of data to evaluate energy efficiency. In this landscape, scalable and easy-to-understand metrics providing an energy competitiveness degree of manufacturing resources are currently missing. The study aims to test through simulation applicability and potential offered by a novel Energy Overall Equipment Effectiveness - Energy OEE - indicator for discrete manufacturing firms. A simulation of a discrete manufacturing CNC machine case is used to evaluate the applicability of using Energy OEE assessment for management decision support. As a result, this study paves the way to a better exploitation of data that energy monitoring and sensor technology aim to offer in the future.","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":"129860248","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}
Amir S. Kalbasi, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, J. Rolia, S. Singhal
{"title":"Simulation by example for complex systems","authors":"Amir S. Kalbasi, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, J. Rolia, S. Singhal","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019957","url":null,"abstract":"Our goal is to support capacity management for systems such as hospitals, campuses, and cities, which utilize resources such as people, places, and things in complex ways. Simulation tools have traditionally been used for these sorts of studies, but they require expert model builders to create and maintain abstract business process models of the system under study. This can lead to a lack of representativeness and difficulty in adapting the model for additional or different study scenarios. This paper presents a new simulation approach, Simulation By Example, which overcomes these problems by guiding the simulation using traces, i.e., examples, of the behavior of the actual system but without requiring explicit business process models to be authored. Instead we rely on system instrumentation to capture the traces. We demonstrate the method in two case studies for healthcare systems as described in recent literature.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"4 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":"128507940","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 practical look at simulation project management","authors":"J. Hugan","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019881","url":null,"abstract":"While the management of a simulation project has many of the characteristics of traditional project management, it also has a number of unique issues that must be addressed. This paper will address the common, the not-so-common, and the treacherous aspects of simulation project management. A simulation specific series of steps will be presented. The paper also includes examples of past projects, the issues that arose, and how they were resolved.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"76 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":"124620395","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":"Integrated simulation approach for assessment of performance in construction projects: A system-of-systems framework","authors":"Jin Zhu, A. Mostafavi","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020163","url":null,"abstract":"This research proposes and tests an integrated framework for bottom-up simulation of performance in construction projects. The proposed framework conceptualizes construction projects as systems-of-systems in which the abstraction and micro-simulation of dynamic behaviors are investigated at the base-level consisting of the following elements: human agents, information, and resources. The application of the proposed framework is demonstrated in a numerical example related to a tunneling project. The findings highlight the capability of the proposed framework in providing an integrated approach for bottom-up simulation of performance in construction projects.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"41 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":"124786837","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 need for a Real Time Strategy game language","authors":"Roy Hayes, P. Beling, W. Scherer","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020181","url":null,"abstract":"Real Time Strategy (RTS) games provide complex domain to test the latest artificial intelligence (AI) research. In much of the literature, AI systems have been limited to playing one game. Although, this specialization has resulted in stronger AI gaming systems it does not address the key concerns of AI research, which focuses on the development of AI agents that can autonomously interpret, learn, and apply new knowledge. To achieve human level performance, current AI systems rely on game specific knowledge of an expert. This paper proposes a RTS language in hopes of shifting the current research focus to the development of general RTS agents. General RTS agents are AI gaming systems that can play any RTS game, defined in the proposed RTS language. The structure of the RTS language prevents game specific knowledge from being hard coded into the system, thereby facilitating research that addresses the fundamental concerns of artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"85 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":"115791807","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}
Ruthwik Pasunuru, H. Hakim, A. Sakhalkar, C. Kibert, R. Srinivasan
{"title":"Towards net zero energy schools - A case study approach","authors":"Ruthwik Pasunuru, H. Hakim, A. Sakhalkar, C. Kibert, R. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020160","url":null,"abstract":"Net zero energy is a topic that is trending in the construction industry. A part of the net zero movement garnering the most attention is K-12 public school construction. Alachua County's Meadowbrook Elementary School (K-5) is a high performance school which can achieve net zero energy status with some proven and effective practices. In this paper, we discuss and compare the current baseline energy usage of the school since its completion and target opportunities to reduce energy usage. Recommendations based on the ASHRAE Advanced Energy Design Guide (50% Energy Savings) with the help of energy modelling and simulation would close the gap needed to make Florida schools energy self-sufficient. Further renewable energy production will be added by taking advantage of the Florida climate zone. The suggestions reviewed and applied in this paper will establish guidelines for prospective net zero energy schools in general and the Florida based schools in particular.","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":"121248095","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}