AbstructComplex models may have model components distributed over a network and generally require significant execution times. The field of parallel and distributed simulation has grown over the past fifteen years to accommodate the need of simulation the complex models using a distributed versus sequential method. In particular, asynchronous parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) has been w...

This study and its companions (Part II, Part III) will concentrate on optimizing a class of supply chain problems known as Multi-Commodities Consumer Supply Chain (MCCSC) problem. MCCSC problem belongs to Production-Distribution (P-D) planning category. It aims to determine facilities location, consumers’ allocation and facilities configuration to minimize total Cost (CT) of the entire network....

Test beds for multi-agent systems provide the means for experimenting with multiple agents that act and interact concurrently in their environment. Mostly, test beds constitute specialized tools which provide speci c scenarios for testing speci c agentarchitectures. To facilitate reuse and a exible compositional construction of experimental frames for multiagent systems, JAMES, a Java Based Age...

Lately, an increasing number of critical applications, which are traditionally not supercomputing-based, are now evolving to warrant high end computing capabilities (e.g., in emergency/event planning and response). In contrast to traditional scientific computing methods, these applications use discrete event simulation approaches, and hence require the development of new, highly scalable techni...

This paper refers to a hierarchical production planning system in a make-to-order environment. A challenging task in this context is to determine good production parameter settings in order to benefit from established planning methods. We present a framework for hierarchical production planning which we use to identify good settings for three planning parameters, namely planned leadtimes, safet...

The new caving megaprojects that are planned to go into production in the next decade have scheduled horizontal developments at very high rates, which difficult achieve. Research has been conducted seeks model construction times for underground determine feasibility of achieving rates. However, these previous attempts do not consider all operational aspects make up mine development cycle. Here,...

Manufacturing Systems provide one of the most important applications of simulation. Simulation has been used successfully as an aid in the design of new production facilities and as well to evaluate suggested improvements to existing systems. There are many simulation tools available for simulating activities of manufacturing, however the today’s complex manufacturing situation demands for the ...

This paper presents a tool for dynamic simulation of radio resources in WiMAX IEEE802.16e-2005 networks. The developed tool provides an integrated environment for defining user scenario characteristics, BS planning, simulation and analysis. For implementing the different mechanisms of WiMAX radio technology, the simulation tool kernel is defined on a system-level, dynamic, stochastic and a disc...