As the number of simulation experiments increases, the necessity for validation and verification of these models demands special attention on the part of the simulation practitioners. By analyzing the current scientific ...

The management of oil-product pipelines represents a critical task in the daily operation of petroleum supply chains. Efficient computational tools are needed to perform this activity in a reliable and cost-effective manner. ...

This article proposes a new combination of methods to increase optimization simulation efficiency and reliability, utilizing orthogonal arrays, fuzzy-data envelopment analysis (FDEA) with linear membership function, and ...

Software quality is an important issue in software engineering. The evaluation of software architecture is crucial to achieve quality scenarios, which reduces development and maintenance costs. This work presents a discrete ...

The management of oil-product pipelines represents a critical task in the daily operation of petroleum supply chains. Efficient computational tools are needed to schedule pipeline operations in a reliable and cost-effective ...

Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that provide a mathematical framework for modelling, studying and predicting the behaviour and response of systems across many different disciplines and domains, ranging ...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a multiobjective optimization approach for solving the manufacturing cell formation problem, explicitly considering the performance of this said manufacturing system. Cells are formed ...

This article introduces a stand-alone implementation of the quantized state system (QSS) integration methods for continuous and hybrid system simulation. QSS methods replace the time discretization of classic numerical ...

This work introduces novel parallelization techniques for Quantized State System (QSS) simulation of continuous time and hybrid systems and their implementation on a multi-core architecture. Exploiting the asynchronous ...

Ties among event times are often recorded in survival studies. For example, in a two week laboratory study where event times are measured in days, ties are very likely to occur. The proportional hazards model might be used ...