Using ranking and selection to "clean UP" after simulation optimization

Operations Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 814-825

  Boesel, Justin ^a   Nelson, Barry L ^b   Kim, Seong Hee ^c  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Programming stochastic: terminal inference; Simulation, efficiency: large scale screening; Simulation, statistical analysis: selecting the best system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROCESSING SPEED; LARGE-SCALE SCREENING; SIMULATION PACKAGES; TERMINAL INFERENCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0347556828     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.51.5.814.16751     Document Type: Article

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