Abstract
A study on simulation fidelity, utility and cost is conducted to address simulation quality issues in Discrete Event Logistics System (DELS) context. First, a simulation lifecycle management (SLM) framework is constructed. Specially, the concept of fidelity is brought into the framework. Then, simulation fidelity, utility and cost are divided into multi-dimensions each according to DELS simulation features. Third, a dimension decomposition based relationship analysis between Fidelity-Utility and Fidelity- Cost is presented. A Utility-Fidelity mapping method is used to map simulation objective into fidelity requirement (FR). Fidelity design (FD) is strictly based on this FR, and simulation design is in turn based on FD. Finally, a Utility-Cost management model is presented to show how well a simulation implementation is done. The SLM framework is effective in guiding the simulation to achieve reasonable balance between utility and cost, which falls into the cost-effective equilibrium zone in the Utility-Cost management model.
This research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61104055)
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Liu, Yk., Shan, Mr. (2015). Utility-Cost Model for Discrete Event Logistics Systems Simulation. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 2014. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-102-4_10
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