A data warehouse environment for storing and analyzing simulation output data

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 703-709

  Vasilakis, Christos ^a   El Darzi, Elia ^a   Chountas, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPREADSHEETS; STATE ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (OLAP); STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 17744367855     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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