In recent years, some attention has been driven to modeling, simulation, and optimization
techniques capable of representing and improving discrete event systems. These …

Abstract In Operational Research conventional simulation practices typically focus on the
conceptualization, development and use of a single model simulated on a single computer …

A large number of modern applications and systems are cloud-hosted, however, limitations
in performance assurances from the cloud, and the longer and often unpredictable endto …

Despite their advanced status, nations such as the United States of America continue to face
a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) crisis in their education …

The use of discrete event simulation optimisation methods is a tool commonly used as a
decisionmaking support system in industrial problems, concerning management and …

Simulation optimization is a tool commonly used as a decision-making support system on
industrial problems in order to find the best resource allocation, which has a direct influence …

Many seemingly simple questions that individual users face in their daily lives may actually
require substantial number of computing resources to identify the right answers. For …

Paratemporal methods based on tree expansion have proven to be effective in efficiently
generating the trajectories of stochastic systems. However, combinatorial explosion of …

Simulation analysis has been performed for simulation experiments of all possible input
combinations as a “what-if” analysis, which causes the simulation to be extremely time …

Communication system in the network‐centric warfare (NCW) has been analyzed from the
perspective of the system of systems (SoS), which consists of a combat system and a …