State-of-the-art review: a user's guide to the brave new world of designing simulation experiments

JPC Kleijnen, SM Sanchez… - INFORMS Journal …, 2005 - pubsonline.informs.org
Many simulation practitioners can get more from their analyses by using the statistical theory
on design of experiments (DOE) developed specifically for exploring computer models. We …

Simulation optimization: a review, new developments, and applications

MC Fu, FW Glover, J April - Proceedings of the Winter …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide a descriptive review of the main approaches for carrying out simulation
optimization, and sample some recent algorithmic and theoretical developments in …

[图书][B] Stochastic simulation optimization: an optimal computing budget allocation

CH Chen, LH Lee - 2011 - books.google.com
With the advance of new computing technology, simulation is becoming very popular for
designing large, complex and stochastic engineering systems, since closed-form analytical …

A knowledge-gradient policy for sequential information collection

PI Frazier, WB Powell, S Dayanik - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2008 - SIAM
In a sequential Bayesian ranking and selection problem with independent normal
populations and common known variance, we study a previously introduced measurement …

The knowledge-gradient policy for correlated normal beliefs

P Frazier, W Powell, S Dayanik - INFORMS journal on …, 2009 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a Bayesian ranking and selection problem with independent normal rewards
and a correlated multivariate normal belief on the mean values of these rewards. Because …

Java quality assurance by detecting code smells

E Van Emden, L Moonen - Ninth Working Conference on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software inspection is a known technique for improving software quality. It involves carefully
examining the code, the design, and the documentation of software and checking these for …

A fully sequential procedure for indifference-zone selection in simulation

SH Kim, BL Nelson - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
We present procedures for selecting the best or near-best of a finite number of simulated
systems when best is defined by maximum or minimum expected performance. The …

Efficient simulation budget allocation for selecting an optimal subset

CH Chen, D He, M Fu, LH Lee - INFORMS Journal on …, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a class of the subset selection problem in ranking and selection. The objective
is to identify the top m out of k designs based on simulated output. Traditional procedures …

Selecting a selection procedure

J Branke, SE Chick, C Schmidt - Management Science, 2007 - pubsonline.informs.org
Selection procedures are used in a variety of applications to select the best of a finite set of
alternatives.“Best” is defined with respect to the largest mean, but the mean is inferred with …

The knowledge-gradient algorithm for sequencing experiments in drug discovery

DM Negoescu, PI Frazier… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2011 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present a new technique for adaptively choosing the sequence of molecular compounds
to test in drug discovery. Beginning with a base compound, we consider the problem of …