Alignment properties in ordinal comparison of discrete event dynamic systems
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Alignment properties in ordinal comparison of discrete event dynamic systems
zbMATH Open document ID: 0959.93040
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008301531221
author: Liyi Dai
author: Jeffrey E. Wieselthier
published in: Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
publication date: 1999-12-20T00:00:00Z
review text: Alignment of observed performance orders with true orders is considered and properties of the alignment are investigated. The authors use Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to measure the agreement between the observed and true orders and they show that Spearman's coefficient converges at exponential rates. In the section about simulation planning, they examine the effect of dependence among simulation runs on the alignment probability. Finally, the authors describe applications to the simulation of communication networks, namely, the standard clock technique and they use Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to compare the speed of convergence of the standard clock technique to that of two other methods, i.e., independent simulations and common random numbers.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 93C65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65C20
zbMATH DE Number: 1348289
zbMATH Keywords: discrete event dynamic systems
zbMATH Keywords: performance analysis
zbMATH Keywords: alignment
zbMATH Keywords: Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
zbMATH Keywords: simulation of communication networks
zbMATH Keywords: standard clock technique
reviewed by: Bohumil František Šmarda
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: a:1008301531221
OpenAlex ID: W2034351114
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1348289