Automating warm-up length estimation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 532-540

  Hoad, Kathryn ^a   Robinson, Stewart ^a   Davies, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; OUTPUT DATUM; SIMULATION MODELS; SIMULATION SOFTWARES; WARM-UP LENGTHS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 60749101252     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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