Bayesian ideas and discrete event simulation: Why, what and how

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 96-106

  Chick, Stephen E ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CURVE FITTING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; MANUFACTURE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN METHODS; COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS; DECISION-THEORETIC; DISCRETE EVENTS; DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION; MANAGERIAL DECISIONS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD (RSM); SERVICE OPERATIONS; SIMULATION APPLICATIONS;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 46149107917     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2006.323042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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