Panel on current issues in simulation input modeling

Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 353-369

  Barton, Russell R ^a   Cheng, Russell C H ^b   Chick, Stephen E ^c   Henderson, Shane G ^d   Law, Averill M ^e   Leemis, Lawrence M ^f   Schmeiser, Bruce W ^g   Schruben, Lee W ^h   Wilson, James R ⁱ  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSEAD   (France)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^e Averill M Law & Associates Inc   (United States)

^f Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^g SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0036927717     PISSN: 02750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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