Simulation optimization of logistics systems through the use of variance reduction techniques and criterion models

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 441-460

  Anderson, Nicholas P ^a   Evans, Gerald W ^b   Biles, William E ^b  

^a Decisive Analytics Corporation   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Logistics; Multicriteria optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANTITHETIC VARIATES; CRITERION MODELS; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM NUMBERS;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 33646389560     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150600574283     Document Type: Article

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