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Simultaneous and efficient simulation of highly dependable systems with different underlying distributions

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Winter Simulation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 24th conference on Winter simulation table of contents

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Pages: 458 - 465

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-7803-0798-4

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Philip Heidelberger
Victor F. Nicola
Perwez Shahabuddin

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ASA : American Statistical Association
NIST : National Institue of Standards & Technology
IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-SMCS : Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
ORSA : Operations Research Society of America
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
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IIE : Institute of Industrial Engineers
SCS : Society for Computer Simulation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 3

	Philip Heidelberger , Perwez Shahabuddin , Victor F. Nicola, Bounded relative error in estimating transient measures of highly dependable non-Markovian systems, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), v.4 n.2, p.137-164, April 1994
	Philip Heidelberger, Fast simulation of rare events in queueing and reliability models, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), v.5 n.1, p.43-85, Jan. 1995
	Peter W. Glynn , Philip Heidelberger , Victor F. Nicola , Perwez Shahabuddin, Efficient estimation of the mean time between failures in non-regenerative dependability models, Proceedings of the 25th conference on Winter simulation, p.311-316, December 12-15, 1993, Los Angeles, California, United States