Based on a discrete-event simulation model, Simulationbased Real-time Decision-Making (SRDM) is an innovative approach to real-time, goal-directed decision-making. When applied to a flexible manufacturing system, SRDM makes better decisions than most fixed policies, such as deterministic, stochastic and manual. SRDM even improved over fixed policies optimized within a class of policies by OptQu...

Based on a discrete-event simulation model, Simulationbased Real-time Decision-Making (SRDM) is an innovative approach to real-time, goal-directed decision-making. When applied to a flexible manufacturing system, SRDM makes better decisions than most fixed policies, such as deterministic, stochastic and manual. SRDM even improved over fixed policies optimized within a class of policies by OptQu...

As workstation clusters (WC) become more commonly used for parallel jobs, there is a growing awareness for the need of job scheduling policies. There have been a fair number of studies on how to schedule parallel applications on parallel systems and a good survey in the area can be found in [5]. It has been shown that the best solution to the processor allocation problem in a distributed multip...

Many concerns would find it useful to have a publicly available database recording exposures to particular substances, with contextual information. The European Union's Registration, Evaluations, Authorisation, and restriction of Chemicals regulation has increased interest in this. It has been suggested that journals should require detailed publication of exposure data with papers. But there ar...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.032.].