Initial Transient Phase of Steady state Simulation: Methods of Its Length Detection and Their Evaluation in Akaroa2

Behshid Ghorbani, Masters Student

Dept of CSSE, University of Canterbury

Fri May 13 15:10:00 NZST 2005 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

The start-up or initial transient problem arises in steady state, discrete-event simulation, where a selection of non-typical initial conditions introduces bias in simulated output sequences. Despite research on the initial transient period and number of tests proposed to detect it, no satisfactory conclusions on the most efficient or accurate tests have been attained. In this talk we will discuss a comparative study of some of these statistical tests.