WSC 2007:
Washington,
DC,
USA
Shane G. Henderson, Bahar Biller, Ming-Hua Hsieh, John Shortle, Jeffrey D. Tew, Russell R. Barton (Eds.):
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2007, Washington, DC, USA, December 9-12, 2007.
WSC 2007, ISBN 1-4244-1306-0 
Opening session:
opening session
Landmark papers:
landmark papers 1
Landmark papers:
landmark papers 2
Introductory tutorials:
introduction to simulation
Introductory tutorials:
generating uncertainty effectively
- W. David Kelton:
Representing and generating uncertainty effectively.
38-42
Introductory tutorials:
optimization via approximate dynamic programming
- Warren B. Powell:
The optimizing-simulator: merging simulation and optimization using approximate dynamic programming.
43-53
Introductory tutorials:
fundamentals of simulation modeling
Introductory tutorials:
modeling and generating input processes
Introductory tutorials:
statistical analysis of output data
- Averill M. Law:
Statistical analysis of simulation output data: the practical state of the art.
77-83
Introductory tutorials:
designing simulation experiments
- Susan M. Sanchez:
Work smarter, not harder: guidelines for designing simulation experiments.
84-94
Introductory tutorials:
agent-based simulation
Introductory tutorials:
successful practice
Advanced tutorials:
inside discrete-event simulation software
Advanced tutorials:
verification and validation
Advanced tutorials:
multi-agent simulation
Advanced tutorials:
statistical analysis:
state of the art
Advanced tutorials:
ranking and selection
Advanced tutorials:
real options valuation
Advanced tutorials:
regression models and experiment designs
- Jack P. C. Kleijnen:
Regression models and experimental designs: a tutorial for simulation analysts.
183-194
Advanced tutorials:
tackling the right problem:
hard and soft methods
- Michael Pidd:
Making sure you tackle the right problem: linking hard and soft methods in simulation practice.
195-204
Vendor track A - papers:
Vanguard Software Corp. and SAIC
Vendor track A - papers:
applied materials and PMC corporation
Vendor track A - papers:
Imagine That,
Inc.
Simulation 101:
simulation 101
Ph.D. plenary:
PhD colloquium plenary
Clinics:
aggregating subsystem models
Clinics:
correlated inputs
Cross-fertilization 1:
cross-fertilization I
Cross-fertilization 2:
cross-fertilization II
Cross-fertilization 3:
cross-fertilization III
- Glenn Shafer:
Game-theoretic probability and defensive forecasting.
272-280
Analysis methodology A:
ranking and selection procedures
Analysis methodology A:
output analysis
Analysis methodology A:
experimental designs for simulation
Analysis methodology A:
simulation optimization
Analysis methodology A:
advances in rare-event simulation methodology
Analysis methodology A:
rare-event simulation
Analysis methodology A:
combining simulation and optimization
Analysis methodology A:
advances in simulation output analysis
Analysis methodology A:
input modeling
Analysis methodology B:
recent advances in optimization and analysis
Analysis methodology B:
recent advances in ranking and selection
Analysis methodology B:
recent advances in simulation analysis
Modeling methodology A:
distributed simulation I
Modeling methodology A:
distributed simulation II
Modeling methodology A:
petri nets I
Modeling methodology A:
petri nets II - related methods and techniques
Modeling methodology A:
networks and composition
Modeling methodology A:
visualization I
Modeling methodology A:
visualization II
Modeling methodology A:
insights and design strategies in conceptual modeling
Modeling methodology A:
modeling and manufacturing
Modeling methodology B:
composition between concepts and implementations
Modeling methodology B:
composing and reusing models
Modeling methodology B:
multi-resolution and composition
Modeling methodology B:
optimization/experiments
Risk analysis:
tutorial:
Monte Carlo simulation in financial engineering
Risk analysis:
risk management and sensitivity analysis
Risk analysis:
credit risk
Risk analysis:
derivative security pricing
Risk analysis:
portfolio optimization
- Scott T. Nestler:
Non-Gaussian asset allocation in the federal thrift savings plan.
1004-1012
- Martin B. Haugh, Ashish Jain:
Path-wise estimators and cross-path regressions: an application to evaluating portfolio strategies.
1013-1020
- Jingjing Lu, Merrill Liechty:
An empirical comparison between nonlinear programming optimization and simulated annealing (SA) algorithm under a higher moments Bayesian portfolio selection framework.
1021-1027
Simulation interoperability/manufacturing:
manufacturing simulation interoperability
Simulation interoperability:
panel:
distributed simulation in industry
Simulation interoperability:
ontology-based interoperability I
Simulation interoperability:
ontology-based interoperability II
Emergency response/homeland security:
disaster decision systems
Emergency response/homeland security:
bioterrorist disaster planning
Emergency response/homeland security:
policy analysis for insurgencies and hazardous material entry
- Rakesh Nune, Pamela M. Murray-Tuite:
Comparision of potential paths selected by a malicious entity with hazardous materials: minimization of time vs. minimization of distance.
1161-1167
- Edward G. Anderson Jr.:
An initial simulation model for aiding policy analysis in urban insurgencies.
1168-1176
Emergency response/homeland security:
risk assessment for public health and cyber security
Emergent behavior:
emergent behavior
Emergent behavior:
emergent bahavior model characterizations
Public systems applications:
panel:
mass egress and evacuations
Public systems applications:
public systems modeling I
Public systems applications:
public systems modeling II
Military applications:
military keynote
Military applications:
UAV simulation
Military applications:
military communications
Military applications:
military modeling
Military applications:
operational use of military simulation
Military applications:
advanced techniques in military simulation
Military applications:
security in military simulation
Health care/advanced tutorial:
joint healthcare/advanced tutorial session
- Sally C. Brailsford:
Advances and challenges in healthcare simulation modeling: tutorial.
1436-1448
Health care:
applying simulation to health care
Health care:
clinical models
Health care:
health services
Health care:
outpatient and ED models
Health care:
epidemic models
Health care:
spatial epidemic models
Health care:
hospital strategic management
Health care:
improving health care operations
Manufacturing applications:
productivity improvement
Manufacturing applications:
lean manufacturing
- Gerald W. Evans, Suraj M. Alexander:
Using multi-criteria modeling and simulation to achieve lean goals.
1615-1623
- Silvanus T. Enns:
"Pull" replenishment performance as a function of demand rates and setup times under optimal settings.
1624-1632
- Jun Duanmu, Kevin Taaffe:
Measuring manufacturing throughput using takt time analysis and simulation.
1633-1640
Manufacturing applications:
automation and material handling
Manufacturing applications:
resource planning
Manufacturing applications:
warehousing and distribution
Semiconductor manufacturing:
modeling and analysis of semiconductor manufacturing
Semiconductor manufacturing:
semiconductor manufacturing performance improvement
Semiconductor manufacturing:
semiconductor manufacturing equipment modeling
Semiconductor manufacturing:
AMHS modeling approaches and distributed simulation
Simulation-based scheduling:
applied simulation-based scheduling
Simulation-based scheduling:
simulation-based scheduling algorithms
- Ningxiong Xu, Linda K. Nozick, Orr Bernstein, Dean A. Jones:
Stochastic rollout and justification to solve the resource-constrained project scheduling problem.
1820-1827
- Adeline T. H. Ang, Appa Iyer Sivakumar:
Online multiobjective single machine dynamic scheduling with sequence-dependent setups using simulation-based genetic algorithm with desirability function.
1828-1834
- George Jiri Mejtsky:
A metaheuristic algorithm for simultaneous simulation optimization and applications to traveling salesman and job shop scheduling with due dates.
1835-1843
Simulation-based scheduling:
user friendliness
Transportation and supply chain applications:
information modeling for supply chain simulation
Transportation and supply chain applications:
new modeling methods:
agent,
grid and multi-fidelity
Transportation and supply chain applications:
simulation-based supply chain optimization
Transportation and supply chain applications:
simulation of complex supply chains
Transportation and supply chain applications:
supply chain modeling and analysis
Transportation and supply chain applications:
container terminals and warehouses
- Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, Kok Choon Tan, Huei Chuen Huang, Wenquan Lin, Yongbin Han, Tian Heong Chan:
A simulation study on the uses of shuttle carriers in the container yard.
1994-2002
- Byung-Hyun Ha, Eun-Jung Park, Chan-Hee Lee:
A simulation model with a low level of detail for container terminals and its applications.
2003-2011
- Jean Philippe Gagliardi, Jacques Renaud, Angel Ruiz:
A simulation model to improve warehouse operations.
2012-2018
Construction engineering and project management:
integrated information management
- Ian Flood:
Project planning using an interactive, structured modeling environment.
2019-2027
- Prasant V. Rekapalli, Julio C. Martínez:
A message-based architechture to enable runtime user interaction on concurrent simulation-animations of construction operations.
2028-2031
- Paul Fishwick, Zach Ezzel, Nabeel Yousef, David J. Miranda, Haluk M. Akin, Luis C. Rabelo, José A. Sepúlveda:
Ontology-centered integration of project management, cost and resource modeling with analysis, simulation and visualization: a case study of space port operations.
2032-2040
- G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee:
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies.
2041-2050
Construction engineering and project management:
analysis of construction operations I
Construction engineering and project management:
analysis of construction operations II
Construction engineering and project management:
resource analysis and process optimization
Construction engineering and project management:
modeling and managing change
Construction engineering and project management:
advanced schedule analysis
Construction engineering and project management:
visualization and interactive simulation
- Amir H. Behzadan, Vineet R. Kamat:
Enabling smooth and scalable dynamic 3d visualization of discrete-event construction simulations in outdoor augmented reality.
2168-2176
General applications:
special topics I
General applications:
business performance
General applications:
business services models
- Young M. Lee, Lianjun An, Sugato Bagchi, Daniel Connors, Shubir Kapoor, Kaan Katircioglu, Wei Wang, Jing Xu:
Discrete event simulation modeling of resource planning and service order execution for service businesses.
2227-2233
- Léa Amandine Deleris, Sugato Bagchi, Shubir Kapoor, Kaan Katircioglu, Richard Lam, Steve Buckley:
Simulation of adaptive project management analytics.
2234-2240
- Richard B. Lam:
Agent-based simulations of service policy decisions.
2241-2246
General applications:
call centers
General applications:
telecommunications
General applications:
special topics II
Simulation education:
panel:
what I wish they would have taught me in school
Simulation education:
using simulation to teach other concepts
Simulation education:
education beyond the university walls
- Beverly Biel Kuch:
Developing and implementing a high school simulation course to provide rigor and relevance to the curriculum.
2344-2352
- David Goldsman:
A simulation course for high school students.
2353-2356
- Peter Tag, David Krahl:
Beyond the university: simulation education on the job.
2357-2361
Poster session:
general posters
- Fermín Mallor-Gímenez, Cristina Azcárate, Rosa Blanco:
Economic assessment of energy systems with simulation and linear programming.
2362
- Rongzeng Cao, Wei Ding, Bonnie Ray:
Mathematical models and simulation for project portfolios optimization.
2363
- Angel A. Juan, Javier Faulin, Joan Manuel Marquès, Pau Fonseca:
Castelldefels project: modeling and simulation of the computer system that gives support to the virtual campus of the Open University Of Catalonia.
2364
- Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Gloria Rodríguez-Verján:
Comparison of on-line scheduling algorithms: quantifying the effects of shared information using a simple supply chain model.
2365
- Alain de Norman et d'Audenhove, Bruno Miessa de Barros:
Simulation of the pig iron transportation system in Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarão.
2366
- Thomas F. Brady:
Modeling the Indiana coal rail transportation infrastructure.
2367
- Hongmei Chi, Lang Zhao:
A conceptual model to support the integration of inter-organizational healthcare information systems.
2368
- Hongmei Chi, Edward L. Jones:
Effectively generating random test data via cellular automata.
2369
- Christian Dehlendorff, Murat Kulahci, Klaus K. Andersen:
Combining Latin hypercube designs and discrete event simulation in a study of a surgical unit.
2370
- Marcelo K. Fugihara, Alain de Norman et d'Audenhove, Neuton T. Karassawa:
Randomless as a critical point: simulation fitting better planning of distribution centers.
2371
- Yariv Marmor, David Sinreich:
POD: the structure of simulation software and model reuse.
2372
- Ville Mattila:
Flight time allocation for a fleet of aircraft through reinforcement learning.
2373
- Victorino Sanz, Alfonso Urquia, Sebastian Dormido:
DEVS specification and implementation of SIMAN blocks using Modelica language.
2374
- Shih Y. Chin, Anselmo R. P. Neto, Eduardo V. G. Filho:
Application of the traveling salesman problem heuristics to the reallocation of equipment in a small-size bakery aiming at minimizing bread production time.
2375
- Luminita Stemate, Codrin Pasca, Ivan Taylor:
A comparison between system dynamics and agent based modeling and opportunities for cross-fertilization.
2376
- Antuela A. Tako, Stewart Robinson:
Comparing the use of discrete-event simulation and system dynamics models.
2377
- Andrea Unger, Susanne Biermann, Mathias John, Adelinde Uhrmacher, Heidrun Schumann:
Visual support for modeling and simulation of cell biological systems.
2378
- María Guadalupe Villarreal Marroquín, Mauricio Cabrera-Ríos:
An adaptive metamodeling-based method for simulation optimization.
2379
- Thomas Wiedemann:
SOA-conform modeling as a high-level standard for discrete modeling and simulation.
2380
Case studies:
operations and inventory
Case studies:
check-in and check-out simulations
Case studies:
successful simulation strategies
- David Ames Holland, Scott C. R. Henry:
Using data mining tools to build integrated discrete-event simulations.
2387
- Marietsa Louise McCreary:
Tips and tricks for using simulation doe to assess the complex interactions of your process.
2388
- Anette Van der Merwe:
Stochastic modelling as a decision making tool in an integrated green-brown fields growth program at the Sasol Secunda site, South Africa.
2389
Case studies:
modeling innovations and applications I
Case studies:
modeling innovations and applications II
Landmark papers from the first 40 years
- Julian Reitman, Donald Ingerman, Jerry Katzke, Jon Shapiro, Kenneth Simon, Burton Smith:
A complete interactive simulation environment GPSS/360-NORDEN (1970).
1
- Marc S. Meketon, Bruce Schmeiser:
Overlapping batch means: something for nothing? (1984).
2
- Robert G. Sargent:
A tutorial on verification and validation of simulation models (1984).
3
- Peter W. Glynn:
Stochastic approximation for Monte Carlo optimization (1986).
4
- Pierre L'Ecuyer:
Efficient and portable 32-bit random variate generators (1986).
5
- Perwez Shahabuddin, Victor F. Nicola, Philip Heidelberger, Ambuj Goyal, Peter W. Glynn:
Varaince reduction in mean time to failure simulations (1988).
6
- David Goldsman, Barry L. Nelson, Bruce W. Schmeiser:
Methods for selecting the best system (1991).
7
- Thomas J. Schriber, Daniel T. Brunner:
Inside simulation software: how it works and why it matters (1994).
8
- Phelim Boyle, Mark Broadie, Paul Glasserman:
Recent advances in simulation for security pricing (1995).
9
- A. Alan B. Pritsker, David L. Martin, Janet S. Reust, Mary Ann Flanigan Wagner, O. Patrick Daily, Ann M. Harper, Erick B. Edwards, Leah E. Bennett, James R. Wilson, Michael E. Kuhl, John P. Roberts, Margaret D. Allen, James F. Burdick:
Organ transplantation policy evaluation (1995).
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