Simple Procedures for Selecting the Best Simulated System When the Number of Alternatives is Large

By Barry L. Nelson, Julie L. Swann, David M. Goldsman, Wheyming Tina Song. Operational Research, 2001

341 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Peter I. Frazier
2. Warrren B Powell
3. Michael C. Fu
4. R. H. Smith
5. Savas Dayanik
6. Daniel Russo
7. Benjamin Van Roy
8. Matthias Poloczek

In Statistics and Probability

1. Peter I. Frazier
2. Warrren B Powell
3. Michael C. Fu
4. R. H. Smith
5. Savas Dayanik
6. Daniel Russo
7. Benjamin Van Roy

Citations in the corpus

• A Knowledge-Gradient Policy for Sequential Information Collection (2008, background): “Other sequential and staged policies for independent normal rewards with frequentist guarantees include those in [25], [27], [17], [26], and [24].”
• Optimization for Simulation : Theory vs . Practice (2002, methodology): “…with an efficient search procedure is Scenario Seeker, developed by Justin Boesel (winner of the 1999 Dantzig Dissertation Award for his work) and Barry Nelson (Boesel 1999; Boesel, Nelson, and Ishii 2001; Boesel, Nelson, and Kim 2001; see also Goldsman et al. 1999 and Nelson et al. 2001).”
• Optimization for Simulation: Theory vs. Practice (2002, background): “One recent effort to combine RS Boesel, Nelson, and Ishii 2001; Boesel, Nelson, and Kim 2001; see also Goldsman et al. 1999 and Nelson et al. 2001 ).”
• Spreadsheet simulation (2004, neutral): “We use the model to evaluate several operational scenarios and examine the trade-offs between system capacity and safety.”