background: the study was developed in order to find a subset of potential factors, which affect birth distance pattern, regarding consideration on correlation of events of birth in a family and correlation within clusters/centers which other studies omit these correlations. methods: referring to documents that were registered for family in the health care centers on socio-economical zone, we c...

This paper considers a lane routing problem in an Automated Highway System (AHS). Lane routing is important because the problem of managing the traac ow on a multilane AHS plays a major role in an urban environment. On the other hand, because analytical approaches are impossible for various, almost unpredictable traac situations, traac simulations are indispensible for the design and the evalua...

This paper proposes a novel simulation-modeling framework that combines discrete-event simulations with system-dynamics simulations. The former represents both operational processes inside of a supply-chain, and the later represents management environment outside of a supply-chain. Further, the paper also discusses modeling capabilities of the proposed framework for supply-chain systems in real...

Parallel discrete-event simulation (PDES), simply referred to as parallel simulation, is concerned with the execution of discrete-event simulation on parallel computers. PDES has been recognized as a challenging research field bridging between modeling and simulation, and high-performance computing. By exploiting the potential parallelism in a simulation model, PDES can overcome the limitations...