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WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Teaching simulation to business students summary of 30 years' experience
I summarize my experience from having taught simulation to over 7000 students for over 30 years; to undergraduate, graduate and Ph. D. business students, executives and high schoo...
Ingolf Ståhl
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Stochastic kriging for simulation metamodeling
We extend the basic theory of kriging, as applied to the design and analysis of deterministic computer experiments, to the stochastic simulation setting. Our goal is to provide fl...
Bruce E. Ankenman, Barry L. Nelson, Jeremy Staum
WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
A preliminary study of optimal splitting for rare-event simulation
Efficiency is a big concern when using simulation to estimate rare-event probabilities, since a huge number of simulation replications may be needed in order to obtain a reasonabl...
John F. Shortle, Chun-Hung Chen
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
In search of the memoryless property
This paper describes a distribution fitting exercise that has been used in an undergraduate introductory simulation class. The intent is for students to collect data describing a ...
Timothy S. Vaughan