Article ID: | iaor1994356 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 293 |
End Page Number: | 301 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1993 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Roth Emily, Josephy Norman |
Keywords: | queues: theory, heuristics |
The relaxation time heuristic is a technique for reducing initialization bias in the simulation of stationary, infinite-capacity, Markovian queueing systems. It differs from many existing methods in that no preliminary simulation runs are required; it is based on characteristics of the underlying theoretical model. The authors apply and evaluate the relaxation time heuristic for estimation of the steady-state expected number of customers in