Simphony: an environment for building special purpose construction simulation tools
Proceedings of the 31st conference on Winter simulation: Simulation---a bridge to the future - Volume 2
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Operations modeling and analysis of open pit copper mining using GPS tracking data
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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This paper describes a framework of real-time simulation for modeling heavy construction operations. Compared with the traditional offline simulation that uses stationary inputs, the capability of real-time simulation to dynamically incorporate new project data and adapt to changes in the operating environment offers the promise of improving the accuracy of project forecasting. In the proposed realtime simulation framework, dynamic data from construction operations are constantly captured and fed into a process-simulation model for short-term scheduling purposes. A prototype system was developed to demonstrate the structure of the proposed framework and its feasibility. The benefits of this simulation approach and future research requirements for achieving a higher-level modeling automation are also discussed in this paper.