Modeling and simulation are a powerful and effective problem-solving methodology to study
how complex real-world systems behave over time. In the literature, many authors have …

Discrete event simulation (DES) is a well-established decision support tool in modeling work
flows in manufacturing industry. But, there are an amount of practical and financial obstacles …

Containing a summary of several recent results on Markov-based input modeling in a
coherent notation, this book introduces and compares algorithms for parameter fitting and …

Ranking of best possible Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technics for implementing on a
target field is one of the most important questions that should be answered by reservoir …

The quality of acquirable used products (cores) is highly variable, which has made
production planning and control of remanufacturing systems difficult. This paper studies an …

An important, but often neglected, part of any sound simulation study is that of modeling
each source of system randomness by an appropriate probability distribution. We first give …

Heavy civil and mining construction industries rely greatly on the usage of heavy equipment.
Managing a heavy-equipment fleet in a cost-efficient manner is key for long-term profitability …

Current concerns about climate change and fossil-fuel dependency have intensified interest
in renewable energy and increased demand for suitable substrates. Softwood tree stumps …

As part of the requirement analysis, challenges were defined for the formalization of
hypotheses. Yet, it seems that these requirements are insufficiently met in practice. With …

Abstract Context The adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) is enabling
companies to improve the pace of building new capabilities, enhancing existing ones, and …