A two-phase screening procedure for simulation experiments

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 223-230

  Sanchez, Susan M ^a   Wan, Hong ^b   Lucas, Thomas W ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPLEX SIMULATIONS; CONTROLLED SEQUENTIAL BIFURCATION (CSB); HETEROGENEOUS VARIANCE;

SCREENING;

EID: 33846704473     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2005.1574255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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