Applied Simulation and Optimization: In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice

✍ Scribed by Miguel Mujica Mota, Idalia Flores De La Mota, Daniel Guimarans Serrano (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presenting techniques, case-studies and methodologies that combine the use of simulation approaches with optimization techniques for facing problems in manufacturing, logistics, or aeronautical problems, this book provides solutions to common industrial problems in several fields, which range from manufacturing to aviation problems, where the common denominator is the combination of simulation’s flexibility with optimization techniques’ robustness.

Providing readers with a comprehensive guide to tackle similar issues in industrial environments, this text explores novel ways to face industrial problems through hybrid approaches (simulation-optimization) that benefit from the advantages of both paradigms, in order to give solutions to important problems in service industry, production processes, or supply chains, such as scheduling, routing problems and resource allocations, among others.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Simulation-Based Optimization with HeuristicLab: Practical Guidelines and Real-World Applications....Pages 3-38
Simulation Optimization Approach to Solve a Complex Multi-objective Redundancy Allocation Problem....Pages 39-73
OR and Simulation in Combination for Optimization....Pages 75-107
Tree Search and Simulation....Pages 109-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Integrated Solutions for Delivery Planning and Scheduling in Distribution Centres....Pages 135-168
Large Neighbourhood Search and Simulation for Disruption Management in the Airline Industry....Pages 169-201
Allocation of Airport Check-in Counters Using a Simulation-Optimization Approach....Pages 203-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Simulation and Optimization of the Pre-hospital Care System of the National University of Mexico....Pages 233-276
Simulation-Based Optimization Using Greedy Techniques and Simulated Annealing for Optimal Equipment Selection Within Print Production Environments....Pages 277-301
Linear Bus Holding Model for Real-Time Traffic Network Control....Pages 303-319

✦ Subjects

Computational Science and Engineering; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Simulation and Modeling; Industrial and Production Engineering