User-friendly scheduling tools for large-scale simulation experiments

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 610-616

  James, Heath A ^a   Hawick, Ken A ^a   Scogings, Chris J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; SCHEDULING;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; INTERRUPT HANDLING; LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTIAL RESULTS; SCHEDULING TOOLS; SIMULATION SCHEDULING; TOOL SETS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 49749109110     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2007.4419654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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