We are developing a prototype of a simulation development tool to aid administrators in the process of redesigning organizational structures. The purpose of the system is to help organization designers to more precisely model their hypothetical designs, and, by simulation, to predict key facets of the overall behavior of their proposed organizational structures. The tool will help them to evalu...

Many consider simulation to be a highly specialist activity: it is difficult to undertake and is even more difficult to understand its outcomes. The new version of the business process modeling tool Protos attempts to more closely integrate modeling and simulation facilities into one tool. The assumed benefit is that business professionals may more easily undertake simulation experiments when t...

in studying through simulation, choosing an appropriate tool/language would be a difficult task because many of them are available. on the other hand, few research works focus on evaluation of simulation tools/languages and their comparison. this paper makes a couple of evaluations and ranks more than fifty simulation tools that are currently available. the first evaluation and ranking is in th...

In most cases today information systems development involves the use of multiple development tools. The developer has the choice of many competing vendor tools to choose from, and the choices to be made are complex. Will the various tools work together, and which tool should be chosen for which task? This paper describes the development of a business simulation game, and the role various develo...

This paper presents a tool for dynamic simulation of radio resources in UMTS FDD. The developed tool provides an integrated environment for users scenario definition, environment edition, base stations planning, simulation and analysis. This tool can also be used to evaluate the impact of new services, different system settings or new subscriber profiles, in the system’s global performance. For...

Getting the most productivity per square foot of clean room space is a common goal for today’s semiconductor fabs. Cluster tool throughput is an important factor in a tool’s productivity index. Maximizing and accurately predicting throughput is a high priority in the cluster tool market. This paper presents a flexible and sufficiently accurate cluster tool simulation model. The simulation model...

—Nowadays distributed computing approach has become very popular due to several advantages over the centralized computing approach as it also offers high performance computing at a very low cost. Each router implements some queuing mechanism for resources allocation in a best possible optimize manner and governs with packet transmission and buffer mechanism. In this paper, different types of qu...

Over the last 10 to 15 years there has been an increased interest in (and need for) the use of fast simulation techniques for the evaluation of the dependability and performance of computer communication systems [1]. Indeed, impressive simulation speed-ups of several orders of magnitude have been attained in the derivation of estimates for failure probabilities and unavailability measures (depe...

Most organizations implement business process reengineering (BPR) for improving their performances. Increasingly, companies around the world are reengineering their core business processes to be more profitable and to improve customer satisfaction. While the merits and innovative aspects of BPR are open to debate, BPR provides opportunities for management science and operations research profess...