Supply chain planning and control approaches need to include a wide range of factors in
order to optimize production. Supply chain simulation modeling has been identified as a …

Some attempts have been done to alleviate the airspace congestion in Terminal
Manoeuvring Area (TMA): reduced vertical separation minima, negotiation of voluntary …

The current lack of airspace capacity poses a major challenge to a sustainable and efficient
air transport system, especially as future demand increases. Recent efforts to increase …

Global concurrence is a topic that affects many companies in most sectors of the economy.
In particular, the improvement in the manufacturing, packing, storage, and transportation of …

This article proposes an advanced java-based simulation tool developed in order to support
decision making in a manufacturing system operating in the hazelnuts industry sector. By …

Artificial intelligence methodologies, as the core of discrete control and decision support
systems, have been extensively applied in the industrial production sector. The resulting …

Petri nets and simulation are a modeling paradigm and a tool, respectively, which may be
successfully combined for diverse applications, such as performance evaluation, decision …

The use of modelling formalisms for the design of discrete event systems presents many
advantages, such as the possibility of structural analysis of the model or performance …

Discrete event systems (DESs) provide an approximate approach for dealing with certain
types of real systems. DES has been extensively and successfully used in modelling and …

The coloured Petri net formalism has been widely used by scientific community to perform
not only research and behavioural analysis of models but also as a simulation tool to carry …