Keyword: simulation: applications

Found 2691 papers in total
Methodological approach to study the dynamics of production networks: discrete‐event simulation modelling
2013,
This paper shows how discrete‐event simulation represents an appropriate tool...
Evaluating the effect of machine and routing flexibility on flexible manufacturing system performance
2013,
The present market conditions require manufacturing systems to expand their actions...
Development and calibration of a constrained resource health outcomes simulation model of hospital‐based glaucoma services
2013,
Health service delivery and organization often develops in an ad hoc manner, in...
Managing the supply and demand uncertainty in workforce recruitment: planned or just‐in‐time acquisition
2013,
Managing knowledge workers is highly complex because of the need to balance the costs...
The development of new infantry tactics during the early eighteenth century: a computer simulation approach to modern military history
2013,
Computational models have been extensively used in military operations research, but...
A simulation model for decision support in Ro‐Ro terminal operations
2013,
Due to its convenience for integrating land and marine transportation roll on/roll...
Modelling and analysis of a multi‐stage system involving batch processors with incompatible job families
2013,
Batch processors can concurrently process more than one job, and are commonly used in...
Hierarchical scheduling strategies for parallel tasks and advance reservations in grids
2013,
Recently, the advance reservation functionality gained high importance in grids due to...
On the approximation of empirical data for service system simulations
2013,
The difficulties associated with parameter estimation for phase‐type...
Demand uncertainty in construction supply chains: a discrete event simulation study
2013,
The delivery of construction projects is typically an assembly operation involving a...
Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing
2013,
We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting,...
The effect of slot‐code optimisation on travel times in common unit‐load warehouses
2013,
The main aim of this paper is to estimate material handling times reductions in...
Optimal Betting Under Parameter Uncertainty: Improving the Kelly Criterion
2013,
The Kelly betting criterion ignores uncertainty in the probability of winning the bet...
Optimum production planning of a dedicated remanufacturing process by an integrated simulation‐based optimisation approach
2013,
In dedicated remanufacturing, required operations are outsourced to third party...
A process simulation of inventory planning and control for Minute Maid Pulpy at Coca‐Cola
2014,
This research aims to develop a process simulation model for the synchronisation of...
Feasibility of analytical solution for transient availability using semi‐Markov process
2013,
In this paper, an analytical method for the transient solution of the...
Integrated decision support systems for improving emergency department performance in Irish hospitals
2014,
In addition to the system's complexity and uncertainty, healthcare managers face many...
Robust door assignment in less‐than‐truckload terminals
2012,
The assignment of incoming trailers to strip doors is one of the critical decisions...
Stochastic cellular manufacturing system design subject to maximum acceptable risk level
2012,
In this study, a non‐linear mathematical model is proposed to solve the...
Agent learning in autonomic manufacturing execution systems for enterprise networking
2012,
In enterprise networks, companies interact on a temporal basis through...
Planning and scheduling a fleet of rigs using simulation–optimization
2012,
Some of the most important and expensive activities in the oil field development and...
Particle swarm optimisation in development of component families using classification and coding system: a case study in an Indian manufacturing firm
2012,
Component/part family identification is an NP class problem in the extent of group...
Strategic Queueing Behavior and Its Impact on System Performance in Service Systems with the Congestion‐Based Staffing Policy
2013,
We study strategic customer behavior in a multiserver stochastic service system with a...
Buffer design for availability: a new simulative study in case of infant and random failures
2013,
In automatic production systems, the size of intermediate buffers significantly...
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