Simulation of continuous mail processing
Hamdy A. Taha, Reuben R. Goforth, J. E. Bass · 1987
Simulation may be used to determine the number of sorting devices needed in an automated postal system facility. The model must deal with mail types with great variability in processing characteristics. Interactions, at the sorting stations, between continuously and sequentially processed batches of mail of these different types, introduces a bias in conventionally collected statistics. Although the logic of the basic simulation is straightforward, the model must be significantly modified to produce unbiased or undistorted statistics. SIMNET and SLAM II are used for independently developed final models.