An interactive run length control for simulation on PCs

  • Authors:
  • Ralph R. Duersch;Lee W. Schruben

  • Affiliations:
  • General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York;Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

  • Venue:
  • WSC '86 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

This paper describes an interactive procedure implementing a new confidence interval estimation technique that determines how long or how many times a simulation should be run to produce results that satisfy a relative precision criterion. It also identifies initial transients and ignores transient data points when determining run length. This technique has been implemented for use with personal computers (PCs) as an interactive program that notifies the user of estimated computation times, thus permitting the scheduling of runs or the modification of run lengths as desired.