The problem of low fertility rate in a country gives rise to numerous other social and economic problems. Many solutions have been proposed for overcoming this issue, and immigration is one of the proposed solutions which may also entail opening up country for refuge, due to some unfortunate incidents in other countries. Working on these lines, we simulate the impact of rapid immigration influx on fertility rates in Korea, using real data and agent based modeling.
Increasing occurrence of natural disturbances such as windstorms and high snow cover as well as uncer-tainty according to queuing and lead times, bottlenecks, utilization, stock level, wagon and truck availability and machine breakdowns lead to supply chain risks and seasonal irregularities in wood harvest and transport. Innovative multimodal systems via rail terminals offer the potential to increase buffer capacity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, a train terminal is included in...
This case study considers the simulation of a coal lading port in order to determine which extensions are needed based on expected capacity demands. These investigations are executed in cooperation with the German company TAKRAF GmbH which planned and constructed the considered port. Processes at this port are influenced by uncertainties, like the provided coal mix from mines and transportation times from mines to the port or meteorological disturbances. The maximum capacity of the current...
A worldwide leading company in the cosmetic industry was dealing with great challenges regarding adapting its positioning strategy to the dynamically changing behaviors of the market. The company needed to decide where to invest its marketing budget to optimize its revenue and was using different traditional marketing mix models without any success. A marketing mix model was developed using agent-based modeling to predict the market’s reaction to a given distribution of a certain budget among...
Simulation modelling has long been used to support operations strategy decisions in the mining industry. Recently, the commodity cycle and push for lower costs has driven efforts to improve operations efficiency. The use of simulation has typically been challenging in the operational time horizon due to the difficulty of initializing the system state and the sensitivity of the results to initial conditions. However, a recent explosion in data availability has made it feasible to know, in real...
We discuss the application of simulation to estimate a nominal, or target, processing times for work stations on a serial assembly line. The expectation is that having different processing times per station per product will increase the throughput of the line, compared to having a constant time for all stations. A demonstration case at ABB Robotics in Sweden will be presented. This is a small part in the “Process Automation for Discrete Manufacturing Excellence” project (PADME) involving five...
In many curricula and degree programs, simulation courses are not required, but these tools and techniques could be beneficial to students preparing for a variety of careers. The current paper describes two examples of simulation education embedded into broader course topics from a development perspective. The examples, from courses generally described in this paper as Cloud Computing and Big Data, offer a recommended approach for exposing students to practical uses of simulation. In the first...
A holistic approach for the simulation of evacuations from buildings in cases of fire and toxic gas spread is developed within the German project iSiGG to achieve high reliability in fire safety planning. Its essence is in the mutual interaction of the domains of crowd simulation, pollutant gas spread simulation (CFD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM), embedded in a coherent IT system. The conceptual basis of this system is provided by a dynamic multimodel ensuring interoperability of all...