Ranking and selection in a high performance computing environment

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 833-845

  Ni, Eric C ^a   Hunter, Susan R ^a   Henderson, Shane G ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 84894219317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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