Introduction to modeling and generating probabilistic input processes for simulation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 19-35

  Kuhl, Michael E ^a   Steiger, Natalie M ^b   Lada, Emily K ^c   Wagner, Mary Ann ^d   Wilson, James R ^e  

^a Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY;

(2+1)-DIMENSIONAL; BIVARIATE; GENERALIZED BETA DISTRIBUTION; INPUT MODELING; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS (NHPP); NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; SIMULATING TIME; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; UNIVARIATE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 46149120149     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2006.323035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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