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WSC
2008
15 years 8 months ago
REal-time delay estimation in call centers
We use computer simulation to study the performance of alternative real-time delay estimators in heavily loaded multiserver queueing models. These delay estimates may be used to m...
Rouba Ibrahim, Ward Whitt
WSC
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Simulation-based, optimized scheduling of limited bar-benders over multiple building sites
In the construction industry, a specialist subcontractor manages a taskforce of single-skilled laborers to work on multiple construction sites, aiming to minimize the total cost a...
Hoi-Ching Lam, Ming Lu
WSC
2001
15 years 7 months ago
How "overstaffing" at bottleneck machines can unleash extra capacity
Using simulation, Headway Technologies predicted that increasing staffing among a group of already lightly loaded machine operators--"overstaffing"--would significantly ...
Robert C. Kotcher
GECCO
2008
Springer
118views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
An analysis of multi-sampled issue and no-replacement tournament selection
Standard tournament selection samples individuals with replacement. The sampling-with-replacement strategy has its advantages but also has issues. One of the commonly recognised i...
Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Jo...
DATE
2010
IEEE
119views Hardware» more  DATE 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Practical Monte-Carlo based timing yield estimation of digital circuits
—The advanced sampling and variance reduction techniques as efficient alternatives to the slow crude-MC method have recently been adopted for the analysis of timing yield in dig...
Javid Jaffari, Mohab Anis