Agenda

 Areas of application
Areas of application

 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is a good way to learn about the latest applications of
simulation.
 WSC is sponsored by:
 American Statistical Association (ASA)
 Association for Computer Machinery / Special Interest Group on Simulation (ACM / SIGM)
 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Computer Society (IEEE / CS)
 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE / SMCS)
 Institute of Industrial Engineers (IEE)
 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: College on Simulation (INFORMS / CS)
 Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)
 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Areas of application

 Manufacturing Applications
 Semiconductor Manufacturing
 Construction Engineering and Project Management
 Logistics, Supply Chain, and Distribution Applications
 Transportation Modes and Traffic
 Business Process Simulation
 Health Care
 Educational and Recreational Softwares
Areas of application

General Trends
 Risk analysis areas such as insurance, options pricing, and portfolio analysis.
 Call-center analysis, which is not amenable to queuing models because of its complexity.
 Large-scale systems such as internet backbone, wireless networks, supply chains
 Control-system software