SIMULATING AIRSPACE REDESIGN FOR ARRIVALS TO DETROIT-WAYNE COUNTY AIRPORT (DTW) (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Justin Boesel, David Bodoh
SIMULATION OUTPUT ANALYSIS BASED ON EXCURSIONS (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, James M. Calvin
We consider the steady state output analysis problem for a process that satisfies a functional central limit theorem. We construct asymptotically valid confidence intervals for the steady-state mean...
COMPARATIVE FACTORY ANALYSIS OF STANDARD FOUP CAPACITIES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Kranthi Mitra Adusumilli, Robert L. Wright
Wafers in a 300-mm semiconductor fabrication facility are transported throughout the factory in carriers called front opening unified pods (FOUPs). Two standard capacities of FOUPs are 25 and 13...
GENERATING SCHEDULING CONSTRAINTS FOR DISCRETE EVENT DYNAMIC SYSTEMS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Wai Kin Chan, Lee W. Schruben
In most scheduling literature, constraints are seemingly generated in an ad-hoc manner using intuitive arguments. This could result in overlooking some constraints or including unnecessary...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Ming Lu, Wah-ho Chan
Numerous previous applications have demonstrated the high potential of discrete simulation methodologies in designing and analyzing construction systems. Still, construction simulation applications...
VIRTUAL REALITY: ITS USEFULNESS FOR ERGONOMIC ANALYSIS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Lawrence E. Whitman, Michael Jorgensen, ...
This paper presents the results of an effort to compare results of an experiment performed in both a virtual and a real environment. The research question addressed is if virtual reality is a...
OPTIMAL COMPUTING BUDGET ALLOCATION UNDER CORRELATED SAMPLING (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Michael C. Fu, Jian-qiang Hu, ...
We consider the optimal computing budget allocation (OCBA) problem where the simulated designs are correlated. The exact optimal allocation is presented for two designs, and an approximation proposed...
INCREMENTAL PLANAR MOTION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Tony Dean
A cellular engineer typically estimates system performance via simulation. An important input to this simulation is the average busy hour subscriber location distribution. The performance of some...
QUALITY ASSESSMENT, VERIFICATION, AND VALIDATION OF MODELING AND SIMULATION APPLICATIONS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Osman Balci
Many different types of modeling and simulation (M&S) applications are used in dozens of disciplines under diverse objectives including acquisition, analysis, education, entertainment, research,...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Greg Parlier
This paper introduces and summarizes a comprehensive systems approach guiding an ongoing project addressing these significant challenges confronting logistics transformation. Currently sponsored by...
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON FORECASTING USING TES PROCESSES (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Abdullah S. Karaman, Tayfur Altıok
Forecasting is of prime importance for accuracy in decision making. For data sets containing high autocorrelations, failure to account for temporal dependence will result in poor forecasting. TES...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Amlan Mukherjee, Eddy M. Rojas, ...
The need for contextually rich educational experiences in construction education has led researchers to explore alternatives using gaming and simulation environments. The work done so far has...
DECISION TREE MODULE WITHIN DECISION SUPPORT SIMULATION SYSTEM (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Mohamed Moussa, ...
Decision trees are one of the most easy to use tools in decision analysis. Problems where decision tree branches are based on random variables have not received much attention. This paper introduces...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Karen A. Harper, Greg L. Zacharias
The application of M&S simulation technologies to advanced analysis and training functions throughout the DoD has led to an increasing need for higher fidelity representations of human...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Douglas J. Morrice, Edward G. Anderson, ...
In this paper, we conduct a simulation study to evaluate linear control theory models applied to the management and coordination of a two-stage customized service supply chain. Linear models that...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Raja Sunkara, Ramesh Rao
Certain classes of tools used in the semiconductor industry require the tools to be setup differently in order to process different types of products. In cases of large setup times, it is important...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Mary Court, Jennifer Pittman, ...
Our nation has seen an increased need to train its civil authorities and emergency personnel under life-threatening scenarios where human life and critical infrastructure are assumed to be at risk....
SIMULATION CT-SCAN: A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Leonardo Chwif, Marcos Ribeiro, ...
There is a general understanding in the simulation community that simulation is not reaching its full potential and is not widely used despite its well-known (among simulationists) benefits. This...
SIMULATION INPUT UPDATING USING BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Tae Hwan Chung, Yasser Mohamed, ...
Simulation built on assumption and approximation has been traditionally utilized to make predictions prior to construction. Although there are many benefits of simulation such as its capability of...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Maj Patrick, M. Downes, ...
The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the usefulness of integrating human-in-the-loop simulations and agent based modeling. The integration of a human-in-theloop simulation with an agent...
ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY CHAINS USING SYSTEM DYNAMICS, NEURAL NETS, AND EIGENVALUES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Luis Rabelo, Magdy Helal, ...
Supply chain management is a critically significant strategy that enterprises depend on in meeting the challenges of today’s highly competitive and dynamic business environments. An important...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, David M. Ferrin, Martin J. Miller, ...
This paper discusses the application of simulation to analyze the value proposition and construction of an incentive program in an Operating Room (OR) environment. The model was further used to...
USING SIMULATED DATA IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH ON REGRESSION ANALYSIS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Christopher M. Hill, Linda C. Malone
Using simulated data to develop and study diagnostic tools for data analysis is very beneficial. The user can gain insight about what happens when assumptions are violated since the true model is...
DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS OF A GENERIC SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATOR (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Shigeki Umeda, Y. Tina Lee
This paper describes a design specification for a generic, supply-chain-simulation system. The proposed simulation system is based on schedule-driven and stock-driven control methods to support the...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Robert H. Kewley
Agent-based modeling is a framework that allows the analysis of distributed command-by-influence using mission-type orders known for over a century as Auftragstaktik in German Army manuals. A combat...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Robin P. Nicolai, Rommert Dekker, ...
Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is an optimization tool that was introduced in the early 50´s by Box and Wilson (1951). In this paper we are interested in finding the best settings for an...
TOWARDS ADAPTIVE CACHING FOR PARALLEL AND DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Abhishek Chugh, Maria Hybinette
We investigate factors affecting the performance of caching to speed up discrete event simulation. Walsh and Sirer have shown that a variant of function caching (staged simulation) can improve the...
DEVELOPMENT OF A PARMETRIC ESTIMATING MODEL FOR TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN DEPLOYMENT PROJECTS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Rudy J. Watson, Young Hoon Kwak
The purpose of this paper is to define the process used to develop a parametric estimating model and to explain the use of the model as it allows a non subject matter expert to predict the cost of...
USING XML AND BOMS TO RAPIDLY COMPOSE SIMULATIONS AND SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Paul Gustavson, Tram Chase
This paper explores the application of Base Object Models (BOMs), an emerging XML standard, for rapidly composing simulations and simulation environments. We examine how pattern components, supported...
PROJECT RISK SIMULATION UNDER UNCERTAIN CONSTRUCTION DURATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Kun-jung Hsu
This paper establishes a two-phase model to explore the financial risk of construction project under uncertain construction duration. Treated as a random variable in the model, the construction...
RISK AND INFORMATION IN THE ESTIMATION OF HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Vahid R. Ramezani, Steven I. Marcus, ...
In this paper, we consider the relationship between risksensitivity and information. Product estimators are introduced as a generalization of Maximum A Posteriori Probability (MAP) estimator for...
MODELING A GARMENT MANUFACTURER’S CASH FLOW USING OBJECT-ORIENTED SIMULATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, José A. Sepúlveda, Haluk M. Akin
Garment manufacturers usually work with a short vision of the demand to come in the following months. So they want to borrow as little as possible while still making a good profit at the end of the...
SIMULATION IN CONTEXT: USING DATA FARMING FOR DECISION SUPPORT (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Philip Barry, Matthew Koehler
Data Farming leverages high performance computing to run simple models many times. This process allows for the exploration of massive parameter spaces relatively quickly. This paper explores a...
MORE “NORMAL ” THAN NORMAL: SCALING DISTRIBUTIONS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Walter Willinger, David Alderson, ...
One feature of many naturally occurring or engineered complex systems is tremendous variability in event sizes. To account for it, the behavior of these systems is often described using power law...
NEW EVENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING TECHNIQUES FOR NETWORK RELIABILITY ESTIMATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Abdullah Konak, Alice E. Smith, ...
Exactly computing network reliability measures is an NPhard problem. Therefore, Monte Carlo simulation has been frequently used by network designers to obtain accurate estimates. This paper focuses...
Agents and Strategic Networks (C-BASN), an extension of (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Brian F. Tivnan
This paper describes the application of data farming techniques (Brandstein and Horne 1998) to explore various aspects of coevolutionary dynamics (McKelvey 2002) in organization science. Data farming...
INSIDE DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION SOFTWARE: HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IT MATTERS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Thomas J. Schriber, Daniel T. Brunner
This paper provides simulation practitioners and consumers with a grounding in how discrete-event simulation software works. Topics include discrete-event systems; entities, resources, control...
APPROXIMATING COMPONENT SELECTION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Michael Roy Fox, David C. Brogan
Simulation composability is a difficult capability to achieve due to the challenges of creating components, selecting combinations of components, and integrating the selected components. We address...
MODELING TOOL FAILURES IN SEMICONDUCTOR FAB SIMULATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Oliver Rose
In this research, we investigate how well Weibull, Gamma, and special bimodal distribution are suited as an alternative to the exponential distribution approach in the stochastic modeling of machine...
SIMULATION EXPERIMENT FOR IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Shihyi Wang, Daniel W. Halpin
From the perspective of flow analysis, the more complex the project, the more wastes are prone to build up, due to the increasing number of interfaces between activities. When processes are further...
PEEKING INTO THE BLACK BOX: SOME ART AND SCIENCE TO VISUALIZING AGENT-BASED MODELS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Stephen M. Guerin
This paper explores current metaphors for visualizing agent-based models. Metaphors include grid, network, n-dimensional cubes and landscape visualization techniques. A final section offers some...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, William P. Niedringhaus, Michael J. White, ...
Stream Option Manager (SOM) is a set of mathematical tools developed at The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD). While still under development, it holds the...
AN EXAMINATION OF FORWARD VOLATILITY (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Ray Popovic, David Goldsman
This paper investigates the adequacy of various principal components (p.c.) approaches as data reduction schemes for processing contingent claim valuations on baskets of equities. As a general...
DEPENDENCE MODELING FOR STOCHASTIC SIMULATION (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Bahar Biller, Soumyadip Ghosh
An important step in designing stochastic simulation is modeling the uncertainty in the input environment of the system being studied. Obtaining a reasonable representation of this uncertainty can be...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Richard G. Born
An important component of any simulation course is the discussion of experimental design. WebGPSS has been used by the author for two years to discuss experimentation in an introductory course in...
ADAPTIVE CONTROL VARIATES (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson
Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are specialized Monte Carlo simulation techniques where the methods are adaptively tuned as the simulation progresses. The primary focus of such techniques has been in...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Arnold H. Buss
There has been an increasing need to incorporate human performance in simulation models. Situations in which human performance is subject to degradation over time, such as vigilance tasks, are not...
A WEB-BASED VIRTUAL FACTORY AND SIMULATOR FOR INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Xuesong Chi, Trevor A. Spedding, ...
An educational web-based virtual factory and simulator environment is presented in this paper. It has been developed for university students to apply various statistical quality control techniques to...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Amr Arisha, Paul Young
Scheduling of a semiconductor manufacturing facility is one of the most complex tasks encountered. Confronted with a high technology product market, semiconductor manufacturing is increasingly more...
BEHAVIORAL ANTICIPATION IN AGENT SIMULATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Tuncer I. Ören, Levent Yilmaz
In this article, the following is done: (1) a systematic and comprehensive classification of input is given and the relevance of perception as an important type of input in intelligent systems is...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Matthew H. Jones, K. Preston White
This paper explores an approach to global, stochastic, simulation optimization which combines stochastic approximation (SA) with simulated annealing (SAN). SA directs a search of the response surface...
A VIEW FROM THE BEGINNING: WHEN DOES A DESCRIPTION BECOME A TAXONOMY (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Philip J. Kiviat
This paper describes the author’s career leading up to the publication of his 1969 paper Digital Computer Simulation: Computer Programming Languages, how it influenced the paper, and why the paper...
A REAL-TIME PANORAMIC VISION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Sumantra Dasgupta, Amarnath Banerjee
The paper discusses a panoramic vision system for autonomous navigation purposes. It describes a method for integrating data in real-time from multiple camera sources. The views from adjacent cameras...
SIMULATION-BASED LAYOUT PLANNING OF A PRODUCTION PLANT (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Mert Altinkilinc
This paper presents a study that uses simulation to improve shop floor performance by means of two layout types and certain operational parameters. In this study, an overview of the plant layout...
TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT MODELING AND OPERATIONAL COMPLEXITY (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Brendan Hogan, Leonard A. Wojcik
Traffic Flow Management (TFM) actions are commonly used to mitigate capacity/demand imbalances within the National Airspace System (NAS). Modeling TFM events has proven challenging in the past,...
OVERLAPPING VARIANCE ESTIMATORS FOR SIMULATIONS (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, ...
We examine properties of overlapped versions of the standardized time series area and Cramér–von Mises estimators for the variance parameter of a stationary stochastic process, e.g., a...
AUTOMATION OF HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES FOR ROUTE COMPLETION FOR AIRSPACE DESIGN ANALYSIS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Lisa A. Schaefer
This paper describes an algorithm for approximating missing data in air traffic routes thereby allowing the lengths of different routes to be compared for our simulation analyses. We were given air...
A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR FINITE-DIMENSIONAL, RARE-EVENT (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Monte Carlo Simulation, Zhi Huang, ...
We consider the problem of estimating the small probability that a function of a finite number of random variables exceeds a large threshold. Each input random variable may be light-tailed or...
FIXING THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT: A TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY WITH EDSIM (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Martin J. Miller, David M. Ferrin, ...
Hospitals today are investing time and money to expand and improve their Emergency Departments (ED). Using simulation to test their many improvement ideas can necessitate running numerous scenarios....
ENHANCING SIMULATION EDUCATION WITH A VIRTUAL PRESENTATION TOOL (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, David He, Pat Banerjee
This paper describes a research plan to address the undergraduate learning challenges encountered when teaching an introductory simulation course in Industrial Engineering programs. It outlines the...
APPLYING STATISTICAL CONTROL TECHNIQUES TO AIR TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Kirk C. Benson, David Goldsman, ...
While the literature contains several adaptive sampling techniques for statistical comparison of competing simulated system configurations and for embedded statistical computations during simulation...
MEDIUM CALIBER CANNON LETHALITY STUDY FOR FUTURE AND CURRENT INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Russell Schott, Patrick Downes, ...
According to the Army Chief of Staff, the Army’s infantry fighting vehicle, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, will be in service until 2032. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle needs an improved medium...
ON USING MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR SCHEDULING (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Samarn Chantaravarapan, Ali Gunal, ...
Monte Carlo techniques have long been used (since Buffon’s experiment to approximate the value of π by tossing a needle onto striped paper) to analyze phenomena which, due to their complexity...
A FRAMEWORK FOR ADAPTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Bertan Altuntas, Richard A. Wysk
Increased complexity of simulation models and the related modeling needs for global supply chains have necessitated the execution of simulations on multiple processors. While distributed simulation...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Léa A. Deleris, Debra Elkins, ...
We present a supply chain risk analysis that is based on a Monte Carlo simulation of a Generalized Semi-Markov Process (G.S.M.P.) model. Specifically, we seek to estimate the probability distribution...
DATA AND METADATA REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPOSABLE MISSION SPACE ENVIRONMENTS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Katherine L. Morse
Composability is the capability to select and assemble reusable simulation components in various combinations into simulation systems to meet user requirements. The Defense Modeling and Simulation...
GENERAL-PURPOSE 3D ANIMATION WITH VITASCOPE (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Vineet R. Kamat, Julio C. Martinez
This paper presents VITASCOPE, a general-purpose, userextensible 3D visualization system for animating processes that are modeled using Discrete-Event Simulation tools. VITASCOPE is an ASCII stream...
VALIDATION OF THE ENLISTED GRADE MODEL GRADEBREAKS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Andrew O. Hall
This paper describes the validation of the Enlisted Grade model gradebreaks and describes a current application of simulation in operations research. The Enlisted Grade model is part of a suite of...
LOCALIZATION USING DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Baybora Aksoy, Volkan Ustun, ...
In this paper, we focus on the implementation of a localization algorithm for sensor networks using a discrete event simulation (DES) architecture. In this implementation, DES is used to calculate...
FADS AND FALLACIES IN ASSET LIABILITY MANAGEMENT FOR LIFE INSURANCE (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Graham Lord
We shall examine the principles behind contemporary approaches to insurance risk management. Furthermore, we shall consider various methodologies, some successful, that have been or are currently...
YOU ARE GOING TO TEACH SIMULATION – NOW WHAT? TIPS AND STRATEGIES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Michael Freimer, Lee W. Schruben, ...
Facing the prospect of teaching a simulation course for the first time can be a bit overwhelming. This panel shares tips and strategies for teaching simulation based upon a wide variety of...
COUPLED HEURISTIC AND SIMULATION SCHEDULING IN A HIGHLY VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Olga Bagatourova, Sudhakar K. Mallya
The topic of this paper is workforce scheduling in a highly variable environment – check proofing and encoding in a bank – where uncertainties include both volume and arrival pattern of the work....
CALIBRATING CREDIT PORTFOLIO LOSS DISTRIBUTIONS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Menghui Cao, William J. Morokoff
Determination of credit portfolio loss distributions is essential for the valuation and risk management of multiname credit derivatives such as CDOs. The default time model has recently become a...
AN IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD FOR PORTFOLIOS OF CREDIT RISKY ASSETS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, William J. Morokoff
The distribution of possible future losses for a portfolio of credit risky corporate assets, such as bonds or loans, shows strongly asymmetric behavior and a fat tail as the consequence of the...
EDUCATING MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SPACE OPERATIONS: THE SIMULATION APPROACH (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, Michael Georgiopoulos, ...
This paper describes a proposed pilot educational program to teach middle and high school students the space shuttle processing operations. This pilot program involves a partnership of two...
Miguel A. Martínez-Beneito Oscar Zurriaga (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Juan J. Abellán, Jordi Pérez-panadés, ...
A discrete event simulation model has been set up in order to analyze the renal transplant waiting list in the País Valencià, one of the autonomous regions in which Spain is divided. The model...
THE ACCURACY OF A NEW CONFIDENCE INTERVAL METHOD (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Johann Christoph Strelen
Confidence intervals for the median of estimators or other quantiles were proposed as a substitute for usual confidence intervals in terminating and steady-state simulation. This is adequate since...
COORDINATION IN A SUPPLY CHAIN FOR BULK CHEMICALS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Eelco Van Asperen, ...
A chemical plant in The Netherlands uses large annual supplies of a bulk chemical. A number of suppliers deliver their parcels from overseas by short sea vessel to a transshipment point where they...
BETTER SELECTION OF THE BEST (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Huaiyu Harry Ma, Thomas R. Willemain
We present a new method of selecting the best of several competing system designs on the basis of expected steadystate performance. The method uses a new form of timeseries bootstrap in a sequential...
PERMUTED WEIGHTED AREA ESTIMATORS (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, James M. Calvin, Marvin K. Nakayama
Calvin and Nakayama previously introduced permuting as a way of improving existing standardized time series methods. The basic idea is to split a simulated sample path into nonoverlapping segments,...
CHARACTERIZATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS OF WORLD VIEWS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, C. Michael Overstreet, Richard E. Nance
We describe a characterization the three classical world views of event scheduling, activity scanning, and process interaction and discuss transformations among them. We believe that one advantage of...
HDPS, AN XML/XSLT BASED HIERARCHAL MODELING SYSTEM (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Richard Curry, Kiriakos Vlahos
HDPS is a practical system for designing modeling paradigms, creating hierarchal model definitions, and evaluating multi-paradigm models- particularly in business and finance. HDPS relies on XML (W3C...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, John D Salt, Bryn Brithdir, ...
The British Army currently embraces a manoeuvrist style of command and hopes to gain further operational advantages from Network Enabled Capability (NEC) and effectsbased planning (EBP). Many new...
IAGO PROJECT AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOUND AGENTS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, John E. Hiles
The IAGO Project explores the question of whether a software model, in the form of a computational model of cognitive behavior, can contribute to better anticipation of asymmetrical threats. The...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Jintae Kim, Steven Y. Ko, ...
As the Internet grows, traffic engineering has become a widely-used technique to control the flow of packets. For the inter-domain routing, traffic engineering relies on configurations of the Border...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
MODELING REAL-WORLD CONTROL SYSTEMS: BEYOND HYBRID SYSTEMS Hybrid system modeling refers to the construction of system models combining both continuous and discrete dynamics. These models can greatly...
EXAMINING THE FEASIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTING SIMULATION (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The Grab and Glue discrete event simulation (Grab-and-Glue) framework has been proposed for several years. This paper investigates the feasibility of this framework. A simulation model of a single...
A SCENARIO GENERATION TOOL FOR DDF SIMULATION TESTBEDS (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
An interactive tool has been developed for visualizing and creating scaled battlefield based scenarios for use in a simulation testbed to develop and test distributed data fusion and ad-hoc...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Group behaviors, e.g. birds flocking, are widely used in virtual reality, computer games, robotics and artificial life. While many methods to simulate group behaviors have been proposed, these...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper discusses a new approach that facilitates the use of simulation in supply chain applications, especially for manufacturing-related activities. A neutral information representation...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
A critical aspect of semiconductor manufacturing is the design and analysis of material handling and production control polices to optimize fab performance. As wafer sizes have increased,...
PORTFOLIO CREDIT RISK ANALYSIS INVOLVING CDO TRANCHES (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Credit risk analysis for portfolios containing CDO tranches is a challenging task for risk managers. We propose here a basis function approach for CDO tranche valuation and portfolio risk analysis at...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In many practical applications of simulation it is desirable to optimize the levels of integer or binary variables that are inputs for the simulation model. In these cases, the objective function...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The following paper briefly presents the formulation and development of a case study supply chain simulation model as developed for an industrial company. The case study company in question is...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Tarja Joro, Anne R. Niu
In recent years, the credit derivatives market has grown explosively and credit derivatives have become popular tools for hedging credit risk of financial institutions. Among the more sophisticated...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
gather and analyze data for real-time control. SCADA systems are used extensively, in applications such as electrical power distribution, telecommunications, and energy refining. SCADA systems are...
ABSTRACT INPUT MODELING USING QUANTILE STATISTICAL METHODS (2009)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Abhishek Gupta
This paper applies quantile data analysis to input modeling in simulation. We introduce the use of QIQ plots to identify suitable distributions fitting the data and comparison distribution P-P plots...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The creation of IT simulation models for uses such as capacity planning and optimization is becoming more and more widespread. Traditionally, the creation of such models required deep modeling and/or...
A LARGE DEVIATIONS PERSPECTIVE ON ORDINAL OPTIMIZATION (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Peter Glynn
We consider the problem of optimal allocation of computing budget to maximize the probability of correct selection in the ordinal optimization setting. This problem has been studied in the literature...
SIMULATION OF AN AIRPORT PASSENGER SECURITY SYSTEM (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
As part of the new security environment at the nation’s airports, discrete event simulation modeling was applied shortly after 9-11 to understand the operational dynamics of passenger security...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Dean C. Chatfield
We describe a different approach to using XML to support the simulation modeling of supply chains. Instead of using XML to specify the simulation constructs, as most previous approaches do, we...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper presents preliminary work done on simulationbased optimization of a stochastic material-dispatching system in a retailer network. The problem we consider is one of determining the optimal...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Jayendran Venkateswaran, Young-jun Son
Hierarchical production planning provides a formal bridge between long-term plans and short-term schedules. A hybrid simulation-based production planning architecture consisting of system dynamics...
SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION USING BALANCED EXPLORATIVE AND EXPLOITATIVE SEARCH (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Andrei A. Prudius, Sigrún Andradóttir
We present a new random search method for solving simulation optimization problems. Our approach emphasizes the need for maintaining the right balance between exploration and exploitation during...
FUTURE OF SIMULATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Prasad V Saraph
In the 21 st century, the Biotechnology industry has the potential to inspire a number of management tools and theories, just as the Automobile industry did in the 20 th century. This paper explores...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper develops a variant of Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for solving discrete stochastic optimization problems where the objective function is stochastic and can be evaluated only through...
SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, David M. Nicol
Homeland defense applications will use large-scale ad-hoc networks of small devices. Routing is a crucial problem, for naive means do not scale well. Geographic Routing (GR) (Karp 2000; Giordano,...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The paper discusses a panoramic vision system for autonomous navigation purposes. It describes a method for integrating data in real-time from multiple camera sources. The views from adjacent cameras...
ABSTRACT STEADY-STATE SIMULATION ANALYSIS USING ASAP3 (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Natalie M. Steiger, James R. Wilson, ...
We discuss ASAP3, a refinement of the batch means algorithms ASAP and ASAP2. ASAP3 is a sequential procedure designed to produce a confidence-interval estimator for the expected response of a...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Simulation models provide relatively fast and inexpensive estimates of the performance of alternative system configurations and/or alternative operating procedures. This tutorial provides some...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
TWO-STEP 3-DIMENSIONAL SKETCHING TOOL FOR NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT This paper discusses a two-step virtual reality based conceptual design tool that enables industrial designers to create sketches of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
BAYESIAN METHODS FOR DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION Bayesian methods are now used in a variety of ways in discrete-event simulation. Applications include input modeling, response surface modeling,...
SIMULATING GROWTH DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SUPPLY NETWORKS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Surya Dev Pathak, David M Dilts
This paper discusses an extended adaptive supply network simulation model that explicitly captures growth (in terms of change in size over time, and birth and death) based on Utterback’s (Utterback...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Paul A. Fishwick
Ontologies represent the next important phase of the World Wide Web, creating a semantic web which links together disparate pieces of information and knowledge. Creating ontologies within computer...
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR CONCEPTUAL SIMULATION MODELING (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Ming Zhou
Simulation is a powerful tool that helps decision makers in business and industry to solve difficult and complex problems, reduce cost, improve quality and productivity, and shorten time-to-market....
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Fasihul M. Alam
Simulation metamodels have been used for optimization, prediction, sensitivity analysis and understanding of complex, real-world systems. Since most simulation models contain a large number of input...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
DATA DISSEMINATION TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS Farm is a distributed simulation environment for modeling the performance of large-scale multi-agent systems. It uses a...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Felipe F. Baesler, Eduardo Araya, ...
This work presents a discrete event simulation model of an important sawmill in Chile. This model was used to perform a bottleneck analysis of the wood process and to propose, based on these results,...
MODELING TOOL FAILURES IN SEMICONDUCTOR FAB SIMULATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In this research, we investigate how well Weibull, Gamma, and special bimodal distribution are suited as an alternative to the exponential distribution approach in the stochastic modeling of machine...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
“Spreadsheet simulation ” refers to the use of a spreadsheet as a platform for representing simulation models and performing simulation experiments. This tutorial explains the reasons for using...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Maj James Denford
Current airspace restrictions in Kabul limit the potential capability of the Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (TUAV) within the area of operations of the Kabul Multinational Brigade. An experiment was...
VITASCOPE is an acronym for VIsualizaTion of Simulated (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Vineet R. Kamat
PRACTICAL 3D ANIMATION OF MULTIPLY ARTICULATED CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT This paper presents research that led to the design and implementation of practical 3D animation methods to visualize...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The discrete event simulator OMNeT++, that is programmed in C++, shows a steady growing popularity. Due to its wellstructured nature, it is easy to understand and easy to use. A shortcoming of it,...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
A critical aspect of semiconductor manufacturing is the design and analysis of material handling and production control polices to optimize fab performance. As wafer sizes have increased,...
MINIMIZING TOTAL SETUP COST FOR A METAL CASTING COMPANY (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Xue-ming Yuan
The optimizing sequence of production for a set of customer orders – in order to minimize machine set-up time and costs – is one of the typical problems found in many manufacturing systems. In...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Theresa M. Roeder
Queueing networks are sometimes used to model material handling in flexible manufacturing systems. We explore the use of a closed queueing network model to approximate an intrabay automated material...
PANEL ON FUTURE CHALLENGES IN MODELING METHODOLOGY (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This panel paper presents the views of six researchers and practitioners of simulation modeling. Collectively we attempt to address a range of key future challenges to modeling methodology. It is...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
important component of any simulation course is the discussion of experimental design. WebGPSS has been used by the author for two years to discuss experimentation in an introductory course in...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. Smith, B. Peters, Hans Vangheluwe
PaM) is an enabler for domain-specific analysis and design. Traffic, a new untimed visual formalism for vehicle traffic networks, is introduced. The syntax of Traffic models is meta-modelled in the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Factory physics provides a systematic description, expressed as laws, of the underlying behavior of a system. These laws can provide important assistance in performing simulation studies. They help...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Emily K. Lada, Natalie M. Steiger
We summarize the results of an experimental performance evaluation of WASSP, an automated wavelet-based spectral method for constructing an approximate confidence interval on the steady-state mean of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Cell-DEVS enables efficient execution of complex cellular models. The goal of Cell-DEVS is to build discrete-event cell spaces, improving their definition by making the timing specification more...
MODELING AND SIMULATION APPLICATIONS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Many different types of modeling and simulation (M&S) applications are used in dozens of disciplines under diverse objectives including acquisition, analysis, education, entertainment, research,...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The genesis of a research effort to develop a Java-based process-oriented simulation framework is described. A key enabler to the framework is an efficient co-routine mechanism implemented within the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
BAYESIAN METHODS FOR DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION Bayesian methods are now used in a variety of ways in discrete-event simulation. Applications include input modeling, response surface modeling,...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We review the basic principles of Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the randomizations that turn them into variancereduction techniques, and the main classes of constructions underlying their...
DISTRIBUTING A LARGE-SCALE, COMPLEX FAB SIMULATION USING HLA AND JAVA: ISSUES AND LESSONS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Distributed simulation promises a range of benefits and opportunities, especially for modeling large-scale complex systems, such as wafer fabs. However, as with many promising technologies, the devil...
SIMULATING GROWTH DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SUPPLY NETWORKS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Surya Dev Pathak, David M Dilts
This paper discusses an extended adaptive supply network simulation model that explicitly captures growth (in terms of change in size over time, and birth and death) based on Utterback’s (Utterback...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Margaret L. Loper
Existing research has defined a new type of simulation time called Approximate Time, where the simulation’s knowledge about the values that represent time is uncertain. The approach is based on...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The simulation pioneers had no choice but to write code if they wished to conduct a computer simulation. Hence the early interest in simulation worldviews, which allowed an application model to be...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Chin Soon Chong, Peter Lendermann, ...
Effective supply chain management (SCM) enables organizations to be more competitive in the current world of global manufacturing by reducing costs and improving the quality of customer service....
A BGP ATTACK AGAINST TRAFFIC ENGINEERING (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Jintae Kim, Steven Y. Ko, ...
As the Internet grows, traffic engineering has become a widely-used technique to control the flow of packets. For the inter-domain routing, traffic engineering relies on configurations of the Border...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In standard optimistic parallel event simulation, no restriction exists on the maximum lag in simulation time between the fastest and slowest logical processes (LPs). Overoptimistic applications...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, James K. Hazy, Brian F. Tivnan
We describe research intended to build an agent-based model that is “organizationally realistic. ” By this we mean that the attributes of the artificial organization of agents conform to...
AN URBAN TERRAIN ABSTRACTION TO SUPPORT DECISIONMAKING USING RECURSIVE SIMULATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Recursive simulation is the technique of having simulated decisionmakers themselves use simulation to inform their decisionmaking. Issues of efficiency require that the recursive runs, especially if...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Traditional approaches to security evaluation have been based on penetration testing of real systems, or analysis of formal models of such systems. The former suffer from the problem that the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Simulation is a powerful tool for the analysis of new system designs, retrofits to existing systems and proposed changes to operating rules. Conducting a valid simulation is both an art and a...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Call center operational performance is measured largely through queue times and customer abandonment rates, and thus managers have an acute need to understand how both management policies and...
WEBGPSS: THE FIRST TWO HOURS OF SIMULATION EDUCATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Richard G. Born
In this paper we present seven short lessons used for introducing management science students to discrete event simulation. It has been used both as the only element of such simulation in courses...
INTEGRATING OPERATIONS SIMULATION RESULTS WITH AN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Gordon D. Rehn, Marco Lemessi
This paper demonstrates the utilization of immersive virtual reality environments in the investigation of operations simulation results. The authors outline the benefits offered by virtual reality...
IN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Kazuo Miyashita
We develop a hierarchical distributed production planning and control methodology, called DISCS, for a large and unstable semiconductor manufacturing process. The upper layer of DISCS periodically...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Simulation is well suited to the development and analysis of supply chain models, since the problems of interest tend to be complex and encompass uncertainty. However, there are typically multiple...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
One of the most important but neglected aspects of a simulation study is the proper design and analysis of simulation experiments. In this tutorial we give a state-of-the-art presentation of what the...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Bala Ram, Aman Gupta, ...
Assembly lines with closed loop parallel lanes have the potential to continue to be productive when individual stations breakdown. A requirement in such parallel lane systems is that the products...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Developing a sequential simulation program is not an easy task. Developing a distributed simulation program is harder than a sequential one because it is necessary to deal with mapping physical...
OPTIMIZATION OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL LIGHT TIMING USING SIMULATION (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Traffic congestion is one of the worst problems in many countries. Traffic congestion wastes a huge portion of the national income for fuel and traffic-related environmental and socioeconomic...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The application of M&S simulation technologies to advanced analysis and training functions throughout the DoD has led to an increasing need for higher fidelity representations of human...
AN EVENT GRAPH BASED SIMULATION AND SCHEDULING ANALYSIS OF MULTI-CLUSTER TOOLS (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Shengwei Ding
Simulation methods are extensively used in modeling complex scheduling problems. However, traditional layout of simulation models can become complicated when they are used to find optimal scheduling...
SOME RECENT ADVANCES IN THE PROCESS WORLD VIEW (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We discuss a modification of the process world view, a graphical modeling representation language for the modified process world view called Control Flow Graphs (CFGs), an extension to CFGs called...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Nikhil S. Gujarathi, Rohit M. Ogale
This paper reports findings of a study of shock absorber assembly line using computer simulation. The shock absorber assembly line feeds shockers to the motorcycle assembly line. The assembly line...
AUTONOMOUS PREDICTIVE-ADAPTIVE SIMULATION FOR OPERATIONS SUPPORT (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Peter C. Bosch
This paper describes a simulation system that monitors operations on a production floor, periodically creating a model of those operations, and running a simulation that predicts the next several...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The labor intensive aspects of simulation development and maintenance make exploration of reuse essential. However, reuse is generally difficult to achieve in practice due to inflexible assumptions...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF CONSUMER CREDIT ORIGINATIONS PROCESSES Staffing decisions in a consumer credit origination environment have a significant impact on the financial institution’s costs as...
VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION OF SIMULATION MODELS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In this paper we discuss validation and verfication of simulation models. Four different approaches to deciding model validity are described; two different paradigms that relate validation and...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Levent Yilmaz
Federated simulations address the need for interoperability, as well as the improvement of reuse and composability. The focal goal in a federated simulation is to facilitate composable simulations by...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper describes the application of parallel simulation techniques to represent structured functional parallelism present within the Space Shuttle Operations Flow, utilizing the Synchronous...
UTILIZING SIMULATION TO EVALUATE BUSINESS DECISIONS IN SENSE-AND-RESPOND SYSTEMS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Paul Huang, Young M. Lee, ...
Simulation can be an effective way to evaluate alternative decisions in Sense-and-Respond systems prior to taking actions to resolve existing or anticipated business situations. In Sense-and-Respond...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Computer simulations can be used to teach complicated statistical concepts in linear regression more quickly and effectively than traditional lecture alone. In introductory applied statistics...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Demetri P. Petrides
Pharmaceutical manufacturers generally employ either organic synthesis or biotechnology. Each of these technologies has unique challenges, but batch process simulation and scheduling tools can...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In financial risk management, a coherent risk measure equals the maximum expected loss under several different probability measures, which are analogous to systems in ranking and selection. Here it...
1 AN AUTOMOD MODEL OF BARGE (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, William E. Biles, Daniel Sasso, ...
This paper describes the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with simulation modeling of traffic flow on inland waterways. Two separate modeling efforts are described: (a) GIS/AutoMod...
NUMERICAL ACCURACY ISSUES IN USING EXCEL FOR SIMULATION STUDIES (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Kellie B. Keeling
Many researchers use Excel to perform simulations, but with each upgrade to Excel – Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel XP, and Excel 2003 – numerical accuracy problems have been noted. In the latest...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper presents a top-down mechanism for coordinating Distributed Discrete Event Simulation (DDES) models using an MRP/ERP system as the federation coordinator. The same MRP/ERP system, which is...
A SCENARIO GENERATION TOOL FOR DDF SIMULATION TESTBEDS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
An interactive tool has been developed for visualizing and creating scaled battlefield based scenarios for use in a simulation testbed to develop and test distributed data fusion and ad-hoc...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper illustrates an example of the use of a metamodeling approach to simulation through an example of two real world semiconductor manufacturing systems. The metamodel used was from Yang et al....
MODELING THE PROGRESSION AND TREATMENT OF HIV (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Steven M. Shechter, Andrew J. Schaefer
Current treatment of HIV patients is based on various guidelines that have changed with the advent of newer antiretroviral therapies and the emergence of resistance to them. However, there remains...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The choice of which factors to choose to vary in a simulation to effect a change in the measure of interest is difficult. Many factors are a priori judged not to effect the measure of interest. There...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Building computational models of real world systems usually requires the interaction of decision modules and simulation modules. Given different models and algorithms, the major hurdles in building a...
DATA FARMING: DISCOVERING SURPRISE (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Gary E. Horne, Ted E. Meyer
The development of models and analysis of modeling results usually requires that models be run many times. Very few modelers are satisfied with the computing resources available to do sensitivity...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Kevin Adams
This paper describes an approach to real-time decisionmaking for quality of service based scheduling of distributed asynchronous data replication. The proposed approach addresses uncertainty and...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In this paper, we consider the fast simulation of traffic groomed optical networks, in which multiple sub-rate traffic streams may be carried on the same wavelength. For real-sized systems, call...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Tool count optimization is mandatory for an efficiently organized semiconductor factory. This paper describes an efficient heuristic to determine the tool count using the compact fab simulator FabSim...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
SIMULATION-BASED PRICING OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES Mortgage-Backed-Securities (MBS), as the largest investment class of fixed income securities, have always been hard to price. Because of the...
ADAPTIVE WAVELET NEURAL NETWORK FOR PREDICTION OF HOURLY NOX AND NO2 CONCENTRATIONS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Adaptive neural network is a powerful tool for prediction of air pollution abatement scenarios. But it is often difficult to avoid overfit during the training of adaptive neural network. In this...
USING AUTONOMOUS MODULAR MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT FOR MANUFACTURING FLEXIBILITY (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Björn Johansson
This paper describes a modular autonomous material handling equipment solution for flexible automation. Discrete Event Simulation is in this case used as a tool for shortening time spent in many...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper presents a method for allocating production capacity among flexible and dedicated machines based on uncertain demand forecasts of products in a production portfolio. Given multiple...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
SRML CASE STUDY: SIMPLE SELF-DESCRIBING PROCESS MODELING AND SIMULATION This paper provides an introduction to the Simulation Reference Markup Language (SRML) (SRML 2002) through a case study in...
VALIDATION AND CALIBRATION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We present a methodology under development for calibration and validation of human performance models in support of simulation-based acquisition processes — a human performance modeling validation...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
For newly designed or transformed business processes, accurately predicting business performances such as costs and customer services before actual deployment is very important. We have successfully...
AN URBAN TERRAIN ABSTRACTION TO SUPPORT DECISIONMAKING USING RECURSIVE SIMULATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Recursive simulation is the technique of having simulated decisionmakers themselves use simulation to inform their decisionmaking. Issues of efficiency require that the recursive runs, especially if...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In recent years hospitals have been vigorously searching for ways to reduce costs and improve productivity. One tool, simulation, is now widely accepted as an effective method for assisting...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Military supply chains encompass a complicated network of customers and suppliers, and deal with a wide variety of items. Demand inside the network is generated at the unit level at a specific base....
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Eva Hudlicka
The human behavior modeling community has traditionally been divided into those addressing individual behavior models, and those addressing organizational and team models. And yet it is clear that...
AN ODDS-RATIO INDIFFERENCE-ZONE SELECTION PROCEDURE FOR BERNOULLI POPULATIONS (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We present a new sequential, eliminating procedure for selecting the best system in a single-factor Bernoulli-response experiment with an odds-ratio indifference zone, where best refers to the system...
SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF TRUCK DRIVER SCHEDULING RULES (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
2004 brought a landmark event in the changes to regulations governing hours of service for truck drivers. This paper describes an effort utilizing modeling and simulation for evaluating the impact of...
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF RFID ON SUPPLY CHAIN DYNAMICS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) as an emerging technology has generated enormous amount of interest in the supply chain arena. With RFID technology, inventory can be tracked more accurately in...
RANDOMIZED QUASI-MONTE CARLO: A TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF SIMULATIONS IN FINANCE (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Quasi-monte Carlo
(QMC) methods have been used in a variety of problems in finance over the last few years, where they often provide more accurate estimators than the Monte Carlo (MC) method. These results have led...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Paul A. Fishwick
Ontologies represent the next important phase of the World Wide Web, creating a semantic web which links together disparate pieces of information and knowledge. Creating ontologies within computer...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge to standard search...
INTEGRATING OPERATIONS SIMULATION RESULTS WITH AN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Gordon D. Rehn, Marco Lemessi
This paper demonstrates the utilization of immersive virtual reality environments in the investigation of operations simulation results. The authors outline the benefits offered by virtual reality...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, David Bauer, Garrett Yaun, ...
Simulation and emulation techniques are fundamental to aid the process of large-scale protocol design and network operations. However, the results from these techniques are often view with a great...
TUTORIAL ON PORTFOLIO CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The distribution of possible future losses for a portfolio of credit risky corporate assets, such as bonds or loans, shows strongly asymmetric behavior and a fat tail as the consequence of the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
To assist the decision makers, we develop a new supply chain simulation software: Easy-SC, a Java-based tool that simplifies the supply chain simulation. In its current state of development, Easy-SC...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper presents a new meta heuristic algorithm based on the search method called simulated annealing, and its application to solving multi objective simulation optimization problems. Since the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
A critical aspect of semiconductor manufacturing is the design and analysis of material handling and production control polices to optimize fab performance. As wafer sizes have increased,...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security works to create an integrated emergency response system, it is evident that computer-based solutions can support this process. Individual commercial...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Thomas A. Mazzuchi
Call center customer service representatives (CSRs) or agents tend to have different skills. Some CSRs can handle one type of call, while other CSRs can handle other types of calls. Advances in...
ABSTRACT PARALLEL SIMULATION OF UAV SWARM SCENARIOS (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Joshua J. Corner
The concept of operations for a micro-UAV system is adopted from nature from the appearance of flocking birds, movement of a school of fish, and swarming bees among others. This "emergent...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Peter Lendermann, Boon Ping Gan, ...
Distributed simulation based on the High Level Architecture standard is adopted to realize the simulation of a borderless fab that involves two wafer fabs located in close proximity. The two fabs...
AN INTEGRATED ESTIMATION AND MODELING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DESIGN OF THE ORBITAL SPACE PLANE (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Dayana Cope, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, ...
The development of simulation models can be time consuming and highly dependant on system data being widely available. When using simulation modeling to analyze future systems, system data may not be...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We review the basic properties of American options and the difficulties of applying Monte Carlo valuation to American options. Recent progress on the Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) method is...
IMPLEMENTING THE HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE IN THE VIRTUAL TEST BED (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, José Sepúlveda, Luis Rabelo, ...
The Virtual Test Bed (VTB) is a prototype of a virtual engineering environment to study operations of current and future space vehicles, spaceports, and ranges. The High-Level Architecture (HLA) as...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
An entire emergency department of a general hospital is simulated to examine patient flows. First, times needed for both outpatients and patients arriving via ambulance to be processed in the...
ESTIMATING EFFICACY OF PROGRESSIVE PLANNING FOR AIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Lynne Fellman, James S. Dearmon, ...
Air traffic flow management (TFM) is a set of processes and procedures which seek to balance the demand for airspace resources with the capacity of these resources. Examples of resources are...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Lars Mönch
In this paper, we consider semiconductor manufacturing processes that can be characterized by a diverse product mix, heterogeneous parallel machines, sequence-dependent setup times, a mix of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
There have been recent advances in using queuing relationships to determine lot sizes that minimize mean flowtimes when multiple product types are being produced at capacity-constrained resources....
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Uma Jayaram, ...
This paper presents our work on the integrated use of simulation tools in real time for participatory occupational ergonomic studies. The focus of this paper is a synergistic system that consists of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In today’s competitive market, businesses are adopting new practices like Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), a customer driven, structured methodology for faster-to-market, higher quality, and less...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Jeffrey B. Schamburg
In this paper we describe a methodology that includes the complementary use of simulated annealing and response surface methodology (RSM). The methodology was developed for analysis of simulations to...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, ...
Simulation plays a vital role in identifying the best system design from among a set of competing designs. To improve simulation efficiency, ranking and selection techniques are often used to...
NEW ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS FOR MARRYING SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This tutorial will focus on several new real-world applications that have been developed using an integrated set of
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In standard optimistic parallel event simulation, no restriction exists on the maximum lag in simulation time between the fastest and slowest logical processes (LPs). Overoptimistic applications...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Jeffrey B. Schamburg
This work provides a generalization of the traditional response surface methodology (RSM) that can be applied to complex, multi-objective simulation studies. These problems involve a larger number of...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, S. ˙ilker Birbil
Recently, simulation-based methods have been successfully used for solving challenging stochastic optimization problems and equilibrium models. Here we report some of the recent progress we had in...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
SINGLE-THREADED SPECIFICATION OF PROCESS-INTERACTION FORMALISM IN JAVA In order to support the conceptualization and specification of simulation models of complex systems, several formalisms or world...
MODULE-BASED MODELING OF FLOW-TYPE MULTISTAGE MANUFACTURING (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
A systematic procedure of module-based modeling is designed and proposed to develop a simulation of any flowtype multistage manufacturing system adopting especially the dual-card Kanban system....
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The Semantic Web is an evolution of the current world-wide web that provides explicit semantics that enable software applications to better process information representations. The Web Ontology...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper describes the application of a master/slave configuration of processors to study a comparison of alternative material handling configurations for automated manufacturing. Such a study...
DYNAMIC RADIATION DOSE VISUALIZATION IN DISCRETE-EVENT (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
To improve its process modeling capabilities, Los Alamos has worked toward integrating dose modeling tools with advanced discrete-event simulation tools. To date, dose information for a model was...
INCREMENTAL HLA-BASED DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION CLONING (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Dan Chen, Stephen John Turner, ...
Distributed simulation cloning technology is designed to analyze alternative scenarios of a distributed simulation concurrently within the same execution session. The goal is to optimize the...
MODELING TIME AND SPACE METERING OF FLIGHTS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Metering flights at key points such as sector crossings is an important operational procedure in mitigating National Airspace System (NAS) traffic congestion due to high demand or changing weather...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We present a conceptual framework for validating reusable behavioral models. The setting for this work is a modern product development environment in which design is performed by teams of specialists...
DEVELOPING FEDERATION OBJECT MODELS USING ONTOLOGIES (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The reuse of existing simulations in multiple federations is an important goal of distributed simulation frameworks. However, in order to reuse a federate, its simulation code often has to be...
OUTPATIENT CLINIC SCHEDULING – A SIMULATION APPROACH (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Ming Guo
The process by which outpatients are scheduled for a doctor’s visit is a crucial determinant of the overall efficiency of the patient flow. The problem at hand consists of determining...
MULTIPLE UNINHABITED COMBAT AERIAL VEHICLES (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
As systems become more and more complex the use of automation tools becomes more important. Although automation is introduced to reduce human workload, improve situational awareness, and system...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Discrete event simulation modelling has been extensively used in modelling complex systems. Although it offers great conceptual-modelling flexibility, it is both computationally expensive and data...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper presents preliminary work done on simulationbased optimization of a stochastic material-dispatching system in a retailer network. The problem we consider is one of determining the optimal...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Raghu Pasupathy
The stochastic root-finding problem (SRFP) is that of solving a system of q equations in q unknowns using only an oracle that provides estimates of the function values. This paper presents a family...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The interactive, simulation-aided analysis of material flow systems is often done with the help of virtual reality. If a user wants to influence the simulation run, the simulation and the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Matteo Brandolini, Attilio Rocca, ...
The authors present the requirement definition and methodological approach for developing a new generation of Computer Generated Forces (CGF) based on Intelligent Agents. The analysis is based on the...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Mark Broadie
This paper derives Monte Carlo simulation estimators to compute option price derivatives, i.e., the ‘Greeks, ’ under Heston’s stochastic volatility model and some variants of it which include...
JOINT MODELING AND ANALYSIS USING XMSF WEB SERVICES (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Arnold Buss
This paper describes the creation of a new analytical modeling capability by bringing together the Naval Simulation System (NSS) for sea strike and COMBAT XXI for littoral and land warfare modeling....
MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF AGENT-BASED SIMULATIONS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
There continues to be increasing interest from a broad range of disciplines in agent-based and artificial life simulations. This includes the Department of Defense—which uses simulations heavily in...
ON-DEMAND COMPUTATION OF POLICY BASED ROUTES FOR LARGE-SCALE NETWORK SIMULATION (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Routing table storage demands pose a significant obstacle for large-scale network simulation. On-demand computation of routes can alleviate those problems for models that do not require...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge to standard search...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, E. Jack Chen
We summarize the results of an experimental performance evaluation of using an empirical histogram to approximate the steady-state distribution of the underlying stochastic process. We use a runs...
ABSTRACT “ONE ” A NEW TOOL FOR SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Hongwei Ding, Lyès Benyoucef, ...
Nowadays, in a hotly competitive environment, companies are continuously trying to provide products and/or services to customers faster, cheaper, and better than the competitors do. Managers have...
SIMULATION MODELLING FOR A BUS MAINTENANCE FACILITY (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Manivannan Ramadass, Jay Rosenberger, ...
The Greyhound Lines Dallas Maintenance Facility was congested during peak operating periods. A stochastic model of this facility was developed to determine the resource requirements needed to provide...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
A new algorithm class is presented for optimization of stochastic simulation models. The algorithms, which combine generalized pattern search (GPS) with ranking and selection (R&S), require...
ABSTRACT ANALYSIS AND ENHANCEMENT OF PLANNING AND SCHEDULING (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Applications In, A Distributed, ...
Planning and scheduling applications and operations simulation models jointly represent the manufacturing activities of an enterprise. This paper relates to a framework that enables integration of...
A NEW APPROACH TO MULTI-PASS SCHEDULING IN SHOP FLOOR CONTROL (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Real-time planning and scheduling in a shop floor are not easy to accomplish due to the concurrent flow of various parts as well as sharing of different types of resources. Multi-pass scheduling is a...
AIR CARGO OPERATIONS EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS THROUGH SIMULATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Aaron L. Nsakanda
This paper illustrates the use of simulation for evaluating and analyzing air cargo operations at one of the new stateof-the art cargo facilities at Toronto Pearson Airport. The establishment of a...
ASSESSING OBSTACLE LOCATION ACCURACY IN THE REMUS UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Timothy E. Allen
Navy personnel use the REMUS unmanned underwater vehicle to search for submerged objects. Navigation inaccuracies lead to errors in predicting the location of objects and thus increase post-mission...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
APPROXIMATE TIME-PARALLEL CACHE SIMULATION In time-parallel simulation, the simulation time axis is decomposed into a number of slices which are assigned to parallel processes for concurrent...
APPLYING A COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE TO CONTROL OF VIRTUAL NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Christopher Mccollum, Charles Barba, ...
CHI Systems, under contract to the U. S. Army Research Institute, is developing an immersive training system, called Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readiness (VECTOR), which...
ABSTRACT FUNCTION-APPROXIMATION-BASED IMPORTANCE SAMPLING FOR PRICING AMERICAN OPTIONS (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Nomesh Bolia, Sandeep Juneja
Monte Carlo simulation techniques that use function approximations have been successfully applied to approximately price multi-dimensional American options. However, for many pricing problems the...
A STUDY OF THE CT SCAN AREA OF A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Kaustubh Nagarkar, ...
Ancillary departments, which include radiology services, are among the important factors that affect the efficiency of patient care in a hospital. This paper presents results from a collaborative...
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT TRADEOFFS ANALYSIS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Supply chain management involves understanding complex interactions between many factors and using the understanding to achieve balance between conflicting objectives. Simulation is a very useful...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Eric S. Tollefson, Michael J. Kwinn, ...
In order to maintain an edge during this time of unprecedented technological growth, the Army must field Infantry soldier systems quickly; however, the cost of doing so without some assessment of...
PRICING DERICATIVE SECURITIES IN INCOMPLETE MARKETS (2008)
R. G. Ingals, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We propose the algorithms for pricing American and European options in incomplete markets. We consider a non-selffinancing replicating portfolio and minimize the hedging error consisting of the...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Creating a simulation of a large enterprise system by manually coding all the details into a simulator tool is not just time consuming, but yields a system that is difficult to maintain. By...
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Simulation is an essential tool for performance evaluation of many practical systems where planners typically want to know how the system will perform under various parameter settings. Since...
FACTORS AFFECTING THE EXPECTATION OF CASUALTIES IN THE VIRTUAL RANGE TOXICITY MODEL (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, José Sepúlveda, Luis Rabelo, ...
The Virtual Range (VR) is an environment that integrates in a seamless fashion several models to improve complex systems visualization. A complex system is a non-linear system of systems whose...
KRIGING INTERPOLATION IN SIMULATION: A SURVEY (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Many simulation experiments require much computer time, so they necessitate interpolation for sensitivity analysis and optimization. The interpolating functions are ‘metamodels’ (or ‘response...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
In reviewing topics in simulation output analysis, we advocate univariate analysis, micro/macro replications based on fixed sample sizes, overlapping batches, batch sizes based on mean squared error,...
BUILDING CREDIBLE INPUT MODELS (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Lawrence M. Leemis
Most discrete-event simulation models have stochastic elements that mimic the probabilistic nature of the system under consideration. A close match between the input model and the true underlying...
RESOLVING MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS IN AGENT BASED DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Zeigler An
With the properties of autonomy, social ability, reactivity and pro-activeness, agents can be used to represent entities in distributed simulations, where fast and accurate decision making is a...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Harsha K. Rajasimha, David C. Samuels
We present a model to explain the effects of the long time between blood stem cell divisions and rapid cascades of progenitor cell divisions on the mitochondrial DNA drift. We allow four stochastic...
IDEAS FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION OF SUPPLY CHAINS WITH ARENA (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper presents a research project being developed at
OPTIMIZATION BY SIMULATION METAMODELLING METHODS (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
We consider how simulation metamodels can be used to optimize the performance of a system that depends on a number of factors. We focus on the situation where the number of simulation runs that can...
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Monte Carlo
simulation can be readily applied to asset pricing problems with multiple state variables and possible path dependencies because convergence of Monte Carlo methods is independent of the number of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper reviews the performance of various methods used to detect the warm up length in steady state discrete event simulation. An evaluation procedure is used to compare the methods. The methods...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
APPROXIMATE TIME-PARALLEL CACHE SIMULATION In time-parallel simulation, the simulation time axis is decomposed into a number of slices which are assigned to parallel processes for concurrent...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The consistent growth of air traffic demand is causing the operational volumes at hub airports to approach their maximum capacities. With this growth, delays are increasing, and safety is becoming a...
ON-DEMAND COMPUTATION OF POLICY BASED ROUTES FOR LARGE-SCALE NETWORK SIMULATION (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Routing table storage demands pose a significant obstacle for large-scale network simulation. On-demand computation of routes can alleviate those problems for models that do not require...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The discrete event simulator OMNeT++, that is programmed in C++, shows a steady growing popularity. A shortcoming of it was the lack of a validated TCP implementation. In order to avoid a...
EXPLORING THE CONSTRAINTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR REPRESENTATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Human behavior representation (HBR) is an elusive, yet critical goal for many in the simulation community. Requirement specifications related to HBR often exceed current capabilities. There exist a...
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ESTIMATION IN HEAVY-TAILED QUEUES USING CONTROL VARIATES AND BOOTSTRAP (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The heavy-tailed condition of a random variable can cause difficulties in the estimation of parameters and their confidence intervals from simulations, specially if the variance of the random...
EXPLORING THE CONSTRAINTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR REPRESENTATION (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Human behavior representation (HBR) is an elusive, yet critical goal for many in the simulation community. Requirement specifications related to HBR often exceed current capabilities. There exist a...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Simulation composability is a difficult capability to achieve due to the challenges of creating components, selecting combinations of components, and integrating the selected components. We address...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS FOR MODELLING AND SIMULATION Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) have proven to be a powerful and enduring graphically-oriented framework for modelling and performance analysis of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
The labor intensive aspects of simulation development and maintenance make exploration of reuse essential. However, reuse is generally difficult to achieve in practice due to inflexible assumptions...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
QUASI-MONTE CARLO METHODS IN FINANCE We review the basic principles of Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the randomizations that turn them into variance-reduction techniques, and the main classes of...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
This paper explores current metaphors for visualizing agent-based models. Metaphors include grid, network, ndimensional cubes and landscape visualization techniques. A final section offers some...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Modeling and simulation (M&S) methodologies can be useful in the development of hardware-in-the-loop applications. CD++ is a toolkit with support for real-time model execution that implements...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Cell-DEVS enables efficient execution of complex cellular models. The goal of Cell-DEVS is to build discrete-event cell spaces, improving their definition by making the timing specification more...
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (2007)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Traditional approaches to security evaluation have been based on penetration testing of real systems, or analysis of formal models of such systems. The former suffer from the problem that the...
Botev, Zdravko, Kroese, Dirk P., Ingalls, R. G., Rossetti, M. D., Smith, J. S., Peters, B. A.
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge to standard search...
Modeling Real-World Control Systems: Beyond Hybrid Systems (2004)
Stephen Neuendorffer, R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Hybrid system modeling refers to the construction of system models combining both continuous and discrete dynamics. These models can greatly reduce the complexity of a physical system model by...
The potential coupling interface: Metadata for model coupling (2004)
Tom Bulatewicz, Janice Cuny, Maureen Warman, R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, ...
Model coupling is a nontrivial task that is not adequately supported in existing frameworks. Our long term goal is to support the fast-prototyping of model couplings, enabling scientists to quickly...
Modelling real-world control systems: beyond hybrid systems (2004)
R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Stephen Neuendorffer
Hybrid system modeling refers to the construction of system models combining both continuous and discrete dynamics. These models can greatly reduce the complexity of a physical system model by...
FOR SIMULATION OF PHYSICAL SECURITY SYSTEMS (2001)
R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters
Although simulation is one of the most innovative and cost-effective tools for modeling and analyzing a system, simulation studies often fail to provide any useful results. One reason is attributed...