Parameter optimisation for a discrete event simulator
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Simulation optimization: a survey of simulation optimization techniques and procedures
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Feature Article: Optimization for simulation: Theory vs. Practice
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Simulation optimization: simulation-based optimization
Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers
Simulation optimization: simulation optimization
Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers
New advances and applications for marrying simulation and optimization
WSC '04 Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation
Simulation Modeling and Analysis (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management)
Simulation Modeling and Analysis (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management)
Integrating simulation and optimization to schedule loading operations in container terminals
Computers and Operations Research
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The objective of this study is to evaluate and compare two commercial simulation-based optimization packages, OptQuest and Witness Optimizer, to determine their relative performance based on the quality of obtained solutions in a reasonable computational effort. Two well-known benchmark problems, the pull manufacturing system and the inventory system, are used to evaluate and compare the performance of OptQuest and Witness Optimizer. Significant validation efforts are made to ensure that simulation models developed in Arena and Witness are identical. The experimental results indicate that both optimization packages have good performance on the given problems. Both packages found near-global optimal (or satisfactory) solutions in an acceptable computation time.