M. H. Habaebi, Yacine Merrad, M. R. Islam, E. A. Elsheikh, F. Sliman, M. Mesri
{"title":"Extending CloudSim to simulate sensor networks","authors":"M. H. Habaebi, Yacine Merrad, M. R. Islam, E. A. Elsheikh, F. Sliman, M. Mesri","doi":"10.1177/00375497221105530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221105530","url":null,"abstract":"With the enormous growth of sensing devices tending to the use of Internet of everything, data aggregated by these devices are the biggest data streams generated in the history of IT. Thus, aggregating such data in the cloud for leveraging powerful cloud computing processing and storage is essential, and it eventually led to the emergence of Sensor-Cloud concept. This has allowed aggregation of the sensors’ data to the cloud for further processing, storage, and visualization. Furthermore, virtualization makes the sensors accessible to other end-user applications that require such data. All of these features are expected to be provided by the Sensor-Cloud invisibly, without the end-user application developer being aware of the sensor location or hardware specifications. For these reasons, a simulation platform where Sensor-Cloud infrastructure agents and components may be modeled, scheduling policies defined, and execution time assessed is essential to assure performance and quality of service. The aim of this study is to develop such a platform by enhancing CloudSim, the most well-known and powerful simulation tool for cloud computing. A user-friendly Java Script Swing-based graphical user interface (GUI) has been carefully designed and implemented for this purpose. The user can then utilize the specific interface to define the Cloudlet type as well as the scheduling on a single virtual machine. Finally, a simulation study is carried out on the platform to demonstrate its efficiency and accuracy. We were able to fully model the needed scenarios and acquire real-time results, displaying good accuracy in terms of application response time with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 3.37%, demonstrating the increased proposed platform’s proper operation.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"99 1","pages":"3 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83645654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A kinetic theory model of human crowds accounting for visual attention","authors":"Jun Ma, Meiling Wang, Linze Li","doi":"10.1177/00375497221101065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221101065","url":null,"abstract":"The visual attention of pedestrians has been rarely considered in studies of congestion prevention in long-distance passages. This paper proposes a kinetic theory model of human crowds accounting for visual attention to study congestion in long-distance passages. The population is divided into visual attention-shifting pedestrians (VAS pedestrians) and nonvisual attention-shifting pedestrians (non-VAS pedestrians). First, the movement characteristics of all pedestrians are analyzed based on observations and measurements obtained through controlled experiments. Moreover, a pedestrian flow model accounting for visual attention is built to transform the characteristics of pedestrian movement into a mathematical model. Finally, validation is done, and the density and the proportion of VAS pedestrians are selected as congestion warning parameters. Simulations are performed for a subway passage connected to stairs, and the effect of visual attention, the critical thresholds of congestion warning parameters, and the effects of implementing mitigation measures immediately after congestion occurs are assessed. The experimental results show that the movement characteristics of VAS pedestrians and non-VAS pedestrians are different. Simulation results show that the model is effective. Notably, visual attention has an impact on pedestrian movement, and using the density and the proportion of VAS pedestrians as early warning indicators is effective for preventing the occurrence of congestion, as demonstrated by the negative correlation between the two critical thresholds. This description of human groups provides quantitative guidelines for crowd management.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"617 1","pages":"1039 - 1056"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77498704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hui-Chiao Jen, B. Huff, Aera Leboulluec, B. Nasirian, Seoung Bum Kim, J. Rosenberger, V. Chen
{"title":"A discrete-event simulation tool for airport deicing activities: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport","authors":"Hui-Chiao Jen, B. Huff, Aera Leboulluec, B. Nasirian, Seoung Bum Kim, J. Rosenberger, V. Chen","doi":"10.1177/00375497221101064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221101064","url":null,"abstract":"Aircraft deicing/anti-icing fluids (ADFs) are applied to remove and prevent icing on aircraft during taxi and takeoff. The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport uses deicing pads for deicing activities that collect and contain the spent deicing fluids for proper treatment or disposal. Local waterways receive ADF as “drip and shear” during the aircraft taxi on the runway and then takeoff. The glycol-based ADF serves as a nutrient for bacteria that grow exponentially, deplete dissolved oxygen (DO) from receiving waterways, and subsequently kill aquatic life. In this paper, we present a data-driven discrete-event simulation modeling process developed in collaboration with DFW Airport to assess aircraft assignment strategies to deicing pad locations by monitoring impact on DO. Our process consists of the following phases: (1) Data Collection, (2) Probability Distribution Modeling, and (3) State Transition Modeling. Both Phases (2) and (3) utilized data mining approaches, including treed regression and variable selection via false discovery rate. Detailed implementation of these phases is described for the DFW Airport case study, and the DFW Airport deicing activities simulation tool framework is presented. The actual data and simulation results were compared in terms of the DO levels in airport receiving waterways to verify the model validity after implementing the proposed model for DFW. Thus, the proposed model can be implemented by airports to control and minimize the adverse environmental effects resulting from deicing activities by optimizing the aircraft assignment to the pad locations.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"131 1","pages":"1097 - 1114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91369088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A modified variant of coyote optimization algorithm for solving ordinary differential equations and oscillatory mechanical problems","authors":"Heba F. Eid, R. Mansour, Erik Cuevas","doi":"10.1177/00375497221101058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221101058","url":null,"abstract":"A vital subject of engineering structures is mechanical oscillations. If the mechanical oscillation is uncontrolled, it can lead to structural failure due to large dynamic stresses developed, as the collapse occurred on the Broughton Suspension bridge due to soldiers walking in step. This paper addresses mechanical oscillation problems employing a proposed modified variant of coyote optimizer. Coyote optimization algorithm (COA) is a new meta-heuristic which mimics the social behavior of coyotes. COA suffers with stagnation problems and immature convergence while solving optimization problems. In this paper, the COA is hybridized with Laplace Crossover operator and new culture tendency strategies are adapted, modified variants of coyote optimization algorithm (MvCOA). The proposed MvCOA is presented to approximately solve mechanical oscillation problems independently of their order, form, and stated conditions. With the fundamental concepts of ordinary differential equations and Fourier series expansion, mechanical oscillation problems can be modeled as a problem of optimization whereby the optimization task is achieved using the proposed MvCOA. Five different ordinary differential equations and four mechanical oscillation problems are solved approximately and then compared with their corresponding exact solutions. The statistical analysis validates that the presented MvCOA is an effective algorithm for different optimization problems. However, from the empirical results, it is visible that the suggested MvCOA approximate approach was able to reach a successful performance solving different mechanical oscillation problems.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"18 1","pages":"1161 - 1178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86115736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Choongheon Yang, Sang Hyun Park, Jin Guk Kim, J. Lee
{"title":"Traffic operation analysis for underground and ground roads using microscopic traffic simulation","authors":"Choongheon Yang, Sang Hyun Park, Jin Guk Kim, J. Lee","doi":"10.1177/00375497221099545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221099545","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzed traffic congestion scenarios in underground roads diverging and merging sections and underground sections that run parallel to ground roads using a microscopic traffic simulation model. The appropriate ratio of the ramp inflow or outflow of traffic volume to the entry traffic volume at the starting section of the underground road network was analyzed. Furthermore, the effect of traffic operation such as adequate throughput, average traffic speed, occupancy, and volume versus capacity (V/C) ratios before the occurrence of traffic congestion in all three road networks was properly produced. To maintain a minimum level of service of all underground sections at the D–E level, the underground inflow traffic volume should be equal to approximately 70% of the 4000 pcph inflow traffic volume from an open road to the underground. The results of this study are a useful reference for establishing traffic control application standards to minimize underground traffic congestion. They also provide useful insights for underground road design.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"19 1","pages":"1071 - 1082"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80311162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sohom Chatterjee, Youssef Hebaish, Lewis Ntaimo, James Deegear, Miles Rucker, Hrayer Aprahamian
{"title":"A quantitative simulation–based modeling approach for college counseling centers","authors":"Sohom Chatterjee, Youssef Hebaish, Lewis Ntaimo, James Deegear, Miles Rucker, Hrayer Aprahamian","doi":"10.1177/00375497231159675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497231159675","url":null,"abstract":"College counseling centers in various universities have been tasked with the important responsibility of attending to the mental health needs of their students. Owing to the unprecedented recent surge of demand for such services, college counseling centers are facing several crippling resource-level challenges. This is leading to longer wait times which limit access to critical mental health services. To address these challenges, we construct a discrete-event simulation model that captures several intricate details of their operations and provides a data-driven framework to quantify the effect of different policy changes. In contrast to existing work on this matter, which is primarily based on qualitative assessments, the considered quantitative approach has the potential to lead to key observations that can assist counseling directors in constructing a system with desirable performance. To demonstrate the benefit of the considered simulation model, we use data specific to Texas A&M’s Counseling & Psychological Services to run a series of numerical experiments. Our results demonstrate the predictive power of the simulation model, highlight a number of key observations, and identify policy changes that result in desirable system performance.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"246 1","pages":"791 - 815"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72874141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simulation-based optimization approach for multi-objective runway operations scheduling","authors":"Bulent Soykan, G. Rabadi","doi":"10.1177/00375497221099544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221099544","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a simulation-based optimization (SbO) approach for multi-objective runway operations scheduling problem. The SbO approach utilizes a discrete-event simulation component to account for uncertain conditions, and an optimization component for finding the best-known Pareto set of solutions. This approach explicitly considers uncertainty to decrease the real operational cost of the runway operations as well as maximize fairness among aircraft as part of the optimization process. Due to the problem’s large, complex, and unstructured search space, a hybrid Tabu/Scatter Search algorithm is developed to find solutions using an elitist strategy to preserve non-dominated solutions, a dynamic update mechanism to produce high-quality solutions, and a rebuilding strategy to promote solution diversity. The proposed algorithm maximizes both objectives of runway utilization and fairness. Computational experiments are conducted using real-life data sets for a major US airport to demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective and computationally tractable in a practical sense.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"53 1","pages":"991 - 1012"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73675037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yasmin Abdulhussain, Hardik Ghelani, H. Henderson, M. Sudhir, Sharon Mascarenhas, R. Radhakrishnan, R. Jan
{"title":"The use and effectiveness of high-fidelity simulation in health professions education: current update","authors":"Yasmin Abdulhussain, Hardik Ghelani, H. Henderson, M. Sudhir, Sharon Mascarenhas, R. Radhakrishnan, R. Jan","doi":"10.1177/00375497221101066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221101066","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past 10 years, there has been an increase in the use of high-fidelity simulation (HFS) as a tool to support and enhance learning in health profession programs. In this article, we review the utilization of HFS in biomedical (basic science) courses for health professions students, and we compare its effectiveness to traditional teaching methods. Studies exploring the impact of HFS on students and residents were included in the review. The use of HFS is more prevalent in advanced clinical settings such as in training residents and nurses than in teaching students in preclinical years. When compared to traditional teaching methods, HFS is noted to be superior in delivering core biomedical concepts to students and healthcare professionals. However, a few studies showed no significant differences between HFS and traditional teaching methods when assessing clinical management skills. Overall, HFS is a valuable teaching tool which enhances knowledge retention and clinical skill acquisition in medical education.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"48 1","pages":"1085 - 1095"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90803131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesús Manuel Rodríguez-Núñez, A. de León, M. Molinar-Tabares, M. Flores-Acosta, SJ Castillo
{"title":"Computational chaos control based on small perturbations for complex spectra simulation","authors":"Jesús Manuel Rodríguez-Núñez, A. de León, M. Molinar-Tabares, M. Flores-Acosta, SJ Castillo","doi":"10.1177/00375497221098417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221098417","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose to use a computational method of chaos control to simulate complex experimental spectra. This computational chaos control technique is based on the Ott–Grebogi–York (OGY) method. We chose the logistic map as the base mathematical model for the development of our work. For the numeric part, we created arbitrary precision algorithms to generate the solutions. This way, we completely eliminated any degradation of chaos from our results. These algorithms were also necessary for the proper perturbation process that the computational chaos control method requires. We control the chaos of the logistic map in two cases of Period 1 and one case of Period 2 to demonstrate that our control method works. The behavior of a complex experimental spectrum was taken and numerically simulated. The simulated spectrum was obtained by controlling the chaos of the logistic map in a variable way with the methods proposed in this work. Our results show that it is possible to simulate very complicated experimental spectra by computationally controlling the chaos of an equation unrelated to the experimental system.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"30 1","pages":"835 - 846"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82751428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, K. Taaffe, R. Pirrallo, William Jackson, Michael Ramsay
{"title":"Overlapping shifts to improve patient safety and patient flow in emergency departments","authors":"Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, K. Taaffe, R. Pirrallo, William Jackson, Michael Ramsay","doi":"10.1177/00375497221099547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221099547","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency departments (ED) act as primary patient access points for millions of people seeking medical care. However, the sheer volume of patient arrivals and variability among cases makes ED prone to crowding, a well-recognized public health, and patient safety issue. In addition, patient care transitions from one physician to another, known as handoffs, increase with crowding and negatively impact patient safety and satisfaction. This research focused on utilizing a novel hybrid modeling approach to represent the physician and patient activities in the ED to identify physician shift policies that can improve patient safety and patient flow by minimizing handoffs and patient time in the ED. Compared to the current practices that utilize a non-overlapping schedule for staffing the physicians, policies that restrict physicians from taking new patients during the end of their shift can reduce the number of handoffs by as much as 11.2%, with no significant difference in patient time in the ED. Furthermore, comparing current practices to overlapping staffing policies with restrictions, we observed that handoffs and patient time in the ED could be reduced to 41.5% and 14%, with a slight increase in physician full-time equivalents. Finally, we also observed that the ED could immediately accommodate a 10%–15% increase in patient volume with an overlapping staffing policy and still achieve the current performance metrics. However, implementing these policies in a specific ED would call for a risk–cost–benefit analysis considering ED demands, resource availability, and staffing costs.","PeriodicalId":49516,"journal":{"name":"Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International","volume":"9 1","pages":"961 - 978"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90432830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}