Dynamic Performance Profiles Of Simulation Calendars
Ke-hsiung Chung, Janche Sang, VINICIUS FERREIRA BRITTO REGO · 2005
We propose a suite of tests based on two-state Markov chains for experimentally assessing the dynamic performance of a variety of simulation calendar implementations. In contrast to previous studies based on the standard hold model for evaluation of performance statically, the proposed Markov hold model is more general and can be used to examine how different implementations respond dynamically to dependent sequences of insertion and deletion requests. The Markov hold model is used to conduct tests based on random, stressed, and correlated input sequences of requests, with performance measures including completion times, sensitivity to correlations, sensitivity to duplication, and eficiency of data-handling. We apply these tests to fourteen different simulation calendar implementations.