A comparison of two parallel ranking and selection procedures

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages 3761-3772

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

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM; PARALLEL-COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; RANKING AND SELECTION; RANKING AND SELECTION PROCEDURES; SCREENING PROCEDURES; SIMULATION REPLICATION; STATISTICAL VALIDITY; TWO STAGE PROCEDURE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84940482239     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2014.7020204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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