Nowadays, implementing collaboration strategies between the members of the supply chain has been an important research topic to obtain a more reactive and flexible supply chain in the highly competitive markets. However, few studies have been done on the impact of such collaboration strategies at one of the lower short-term decision levels: production scheduling. This article is devoted to the ...

This paper demonstrates a practical simulation approach to analyze domestic water demand and its future uncertainty in water scarce areas through a case study of Beijing, China. Analytic models and a forecasting model were constructed using statistic and econometric regression approaches. The analytic models were used to analyze the interrelationships between domestic water demand and some soci...

Kotler and Caslione have recently published a new book Chaotics which stresses the importance of scenario analysis in marketing, especially in turbulent times. The goal of this paper is to show how an agent-based simulator could be practically used as a valuable supporting tool for the marketing analysis of opportunities and threats on retail markets.

Based on the computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling method, this research analyzes the relationship between industrial structure and land use structure in China. The results show that our model is feasible, and the simulation results are of a certain stability. Under the scenario analysis and projection of the relationship between the industrial structure and land use structure of the t...

OBJECTIVES To explore the value of simulation modelling in evaluating the effects of strategies to plan and schedule operating room (OR) resources aimed at reducing time to surgery for non-elective orthopaedic inpatients at a Swedish hospital. METHODS We applied discrete-event simulation modelling. The model was populated with real world data from a university hospital with a strong focus on ...

A method for prediction of wind speed at a selected location based on the data collected at neighborhood locations is presented. The affinity of wind speeds measured at different locations is defined by Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Five turbines with similar wind conditions are selected among 30 wind turbines for in-depth analysis. The wind data from these turbines are used to predict win...

This paper shows how the building automation systems (BAS) are a powerful tool for companies face some permanent or temporary changes that can occur in the surrounding environment, which can affect the welfare of users, increase the energy consumption and/or demand more financial investment to strengthen or to replace the actual systems to attend the needs of users. However, these systems not p...

Water is the most essential component for sustaining lives of humans and other living creatures. Supplying potable water with adequate residual pressure is a fundamental responsibility of city administration, which they do during normal conditions. But sometimes, abnormal conditions are formed resulting pressure deficient conditions during the daily operations of water distribution networks. Th...

the purpose of this study is to examine different scenarios for implementing operations in the pre-construction phase of a project, based on several competing criteria with different importance levels in order to achieve a more efficient execution plan. this paper presents a new framework that integrates discrete event simulation (des) and data envelopment analysis (dea) to rank different scena...