INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop

Simulation: At the Interface of Modeling and Analysis

Warwick Castle

 

 

 

 

 

Simulation Society

 

INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop

 

Simulation: At the Interface of Modeling and Analysis

 

June 25-27, 2009

 

University of Warwick

Coventry, U.K.

 

The INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop is a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and results and to discuss new developments in the simulation of stochastic process and discrete-event systems. 

 

The goal of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers working in a variety of theoretical, empirical, application and implementation domains in order to reflect on a central theme: Simulation: At the Interface of Modeling and Analysis. More specifically, the topics include the following:

 

¨ Identifying innovative methods to significantly advance the use simulation for decision making though the interface of modeling and analysis.

 

¨ Identifying and discussing the strengths and limitations of existing simulation techniques in terms of both modeling and analysis capabilities.

 

¨ Promoting the interaction between the simulation modeling research and the simulation analysis research communities

 

¨ Discussing the role of sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, the robustness of decisions to modeling assumptions, implementation issues, and special considerations that arise in specific applications.

 

¨ Addressing practical, statistical, and computational performance aspects of integrated modeling and analysis methods and research areas.

 

¨ Identifying the modeling and analysis demands are placed on existing simulation tools that are used in a variety of applications.

 

¨ Proposing collaborative research methods and strategies to address gaps in existing simulation software that could be jointly addressed by the two communities.