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Some common
application areas: modeling manufacturing processes, such as production
lines, to examine resource utilization, modeling transportation systems to
examine scheduling and resource requirements, modeling service systems,
modeling training systems, modeling human operator performance and
interaction under changing conditions.
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Task mean time –
average time required for completing a task, once it has begun executing
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Conditions –
sometimes there are situations when a task cannot start until certain
conditions are met
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Current state of the
system might change when a task begins or ends
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Three decision types
provided in order to deal with task sequencing : probabilistic, multiple, and
tactical.
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One player in the
manufacturing industry used the optimization feature provided by Microsaint
in order to increase their efficiency. One player in the health care system
liked the simulation of the flow of patients from ambulatory surgery, to
surgery, to recovery and back.
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(Schunk, 2002)
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