Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Fukushima City, 960-1296, Japan This paper focuses on efficiency of simulation-based optimization for container terminal operation system. Firstly, the discrete-event simulation model of multimodal operation system on container terminal was presented with the queuing network, for which the mathematical optimization model of resource al...

MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation Toolkit) is an open source large-scale agent-based transportation planning project applied to various areas like road transport, public freight regional evacuation, etc. BEAM (Behavior, Energy, Autonomy, and Mobility) framework extends enable powerful scalable analysis of urban systems. The agents from the simulation exhibit ‘mode choice’ behavior based ...

Given an increase in consumer demand for product quality, companies need to continually improve their means of production. The use computational resources assists choose ordering system that best suits reality. In this sense, the present study aims analyze and compare performance Paired-cell Overlapping Loops Cards with Authorization (POLCA) system, according pre-established parameters a real a...

In this article three dimensional modeling of a planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) was investigated. The main objective was to attain the optimized cell operation. SOFC operation simulation involves a large number of parameters,   complicated equations, (mostly partial differential equations), and a sophisticated simulation technique; hence, a finite element method (FEM) multiphysics approach ...

We consider a manufacturing system that uses Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) for material handling. Increasing the capacity of the AGVs used can lead to increased throughput and reduced inventory-holding costs. However, AGVs are typically expensive. Hence modeling the economics of buying an additional vehicle is an important problem from the standpoint of making a system lean. Optimization of ...

estimation of parameters of a hydrologic model is undertaken using a procedure called “calibration” in order to obtain predictions as close as possible to observed values. this study aimed to use the particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm for automatic calibration of the hec-hms hydrologic model, which includes a library of different event-based models for simulating the rainfall-runoff pr...