Using controlled experiments to calibrate computer models: The Airplane Game as a lean simulation exercise

Proceedings of IGLC16: 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 309-319

  Rybkowski, Zofia K ^a   Wong, John Michael ^b   Ballard, Glenn ^a,c   Tommelein, Iris D ^a,c  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Project Production Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Airplane Game; Controlled experiment; Discrete event simulation; EZStrobe; Lean; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE GAME; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DISCRETE EVENTS; EZSTROBE; LEAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AIRCRAFT; EXPERIMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84856683531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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