Practical considerations in selecting the best set of simulated systems
Practical considerations in selecting the best set of simulated systems
In many practical problems, simulation models are used to support complex decision-making processes comparing hundreds or thousands of solutions. These problems typically have a key objective but the final decision may be dependent on other factors, which cannot be incorporated into the simulation model. In such cases, decision-makers may request a short list of ‘good’ solutions, which work well for the main objective and satisfy one or more chance constraints. While fully sequential ranking and selection procedures can be effective at solving these problems, surveys of experimentation practice suggest that they are under-utilized, potentially due to difficulties automating commercial software. We develop an approach with just two stages of replications. The approach, which has been designed to cope with the use of common random numbers, draws on ideas from indifference zones and makes use of bootstrapping to find a subset of high quality solutions. A Python implementation is freely available.
Simulation
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Currie, Christine
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Monks, Thomas
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9 December 2018
Currie, Christine
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Monks, Thomas
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Currie, Christine and Monks, Thomas
(2018)
Practical considerations in selecting the best set of simulated systems.
Rabe, Markus, Juan, Angel, Mustafee, Navonil, Skoogh, Anders and Johansson, B.
(eds.)
In Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference.
IEEE.
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Abstract
In many practical problems, simulation models are used to support complex decision-making processes comparing hundreds or thousands of solutions. These problems typically have a key objective but the final decision may be dependent on other factors, which cannot be incorporated into the simulation model. In such cases, decision-makers may request a short list of ‘good’ solutions, which work well for the main objective and satisfy one or more chance constraints. While fully sequential ranking and selection procedures can be effective at solving these problems, surveys of experimentation practice suggest that they are under-utilized, potentially due to difficulties automating commercial software. We develop an approach with just two stages of replications. The approach, which has been designed to cope with the use of common random numbers, draws on ideas from indifference zones and makes use of bootstrapping to find a subset of high quality solutions. A Python implementation is freely available.
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 June 2018
Published date: 9 December 2018
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Winter Simulation Conference 2018, Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018-12-09 - 2018-12-12
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Simulation
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Local EPrints ID: 421984
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/421984
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Author:
Thomas Monks
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Markus Rabe
Editor:
Angel Juan
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Navonil Mustafee
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Anders Skoogh
Editor:
B. Johansson
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