Announcing the Final Examination of Ahmed Bakhsh for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Time & Location: May 28, 2013 at 1:00 PM in ENG2 312L Title: A Posteriori and Interactive Analysis Approaches for Decision-Making with Multiple Stochastic Objectives

Computer simulation is a popular method that is often used as a decision support tool in industry to estimate the performance of systems too complex for analytical solutions. It is a tool that assists decision-makers to improve organizational performance and achieve performance objectives in which simulated conditions can be randomly varied so that critical situations can be investigated without real-world risk. Due to the stochastic nature of many of the input process variables in simulation models, the output from the simulation model experiments are random. Thus, experimental runs of computer simulations yield only estimates of the values of performance objectives, where these estimates are themselves random variables.