Paper Info
Title
Simulation optimization in Discrete Event Logistics Systems: The challenge of operational control.
Abstract
Simulation optimization tools have the potential to provide an unprecedented level of support for the design and execution of operational control in Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS). While much of the simulation optimization literature has focused on developing and exploiting integration and syntactical interoperability between simulation and optimization tools, maximizing the effectiveness of these tools to support the design and execution of control behavior requires an even greater degree of interoperability than the current state of the art. In this paper, we propose a modeling methodology for operational control decision-making that can improve the interoperability between these two analysis methods and their associated tools in the context of DELS control. This methodology establishes a standard definition of operational control for both simulation and optimization methods and defines a mapping between decision variables (optimization) and execution mechanisms (simulation/ base system). The goal is a standard for creating conforming simulation and optimization tools that are capable of meeting the functional needs of operational control decision making in DELS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/WSC.2016.7822174
Winter Simulation Conference
Field
DocType
ISSN
Data modeling,Decision variables,Systems engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Simulation,Interoperability,Computer science,Standard definition,Operational control,Engineering optimization,Semantics
Conference
0891-7736
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-4484-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Timothy Sprock122.07
Leon F. McGinnis249450.09