Efficient experimental design tools for exploring large simulation models

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-257

  Oh, Regine Pei Tze ^a   Sanchez, Susan M ^b   Lucas, Thomas W ^c   Wan, Hong ^d   Nissen, Mark E ^b  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences   (United States)

^d SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Hierarchy organizational model; Screening; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF SIMULATIONS; COMPLICATED SYSTEMS; EFFICIENT EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL MODELING; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION APPROACH;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; SCREENING; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 73149111476     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-009-9059-1     Document Type: Article

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