Conference Papers

  • Lin, Po-Chen and Leon F. McGinnis, "TEST PROBLEMS, REFERENCE MODELS AND FAB SIMULATION," Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference, W. K. V. Chan, A. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Mustafee, G. Wainer, and E. Page, eds.
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  • McGinnis, Leon F. and Oliver Rose, "HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE OF SIMULATION IN MANUFACTURING," Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference, W. K. V. Chan, A. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Mustafee, G. Wainer, and E. Page, eds.
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  • Sprock, Timothy, and Leon F. McGinnis. "A simulation optimization framework for discrete event logistics systems (DELS)." Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference. IEEE Press, 2015.
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  • Sprock, Timothy, and Leon F. McGinnis. "A Conceptual Model for Operational Control in Smart Manufacturing Systems." IFAC-PapersOnLine 48.3 (2015): 1865-1869.
  • Sprock, Timothy, and Leon F. McGinnis. "Analysis of Functional Architectures for Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS)." Procedia Computer Science 44 (2015): 517-526.
  • Sprock, Timothy, and Leon F. McGinnis. 2014. “Simulation Model Generation of Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS) Using Software Patterns.” In Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference. Savannah, GA.
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  • McGinnis, Leon, and Timothy Sprock. 2014. "Integrating Analysis Into A Warehouse Design Workflow." 13th International Material Handling Research Colloquium - 2014. Material Handling Industry of America.
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  • Sprock, Timothy, and Leon F. McGinnis. 2014. “Towards Automated Access to Supply Chain Analyses.” In Proceedings of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 2014 Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.
  • Goetschalckx, Marc, and Leon McGinnis. "Modeling-based design of strategic supply chain networks for aircraft manufacturing." Procedia Computer Science 16 (2013): 611-620.
  • Thiers, G., and L.  McGinnis (2013), “A SysML-Based Semantic Reference Model for Design-to-Production Translation,” ISERC 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Werner, S., Schmidt, A., and L. McGinnis (2013), “Integrating Warehouse Design Models and Warehouse Analysis Models Using ModelCenter,” ISERC 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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  • Sprock, T., and L. McGinnis (2013), “An Object-Oriented Implementation of SCOR,” ISERC 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Batarseh, O., and L. McGinnis (2012), “System Modeling in SysML and System Analysis in Arena,” in Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference,  C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and A.M. Uhrmacher, eds.
  • Batarseh, Ola, and Leon F. McGinnis. "SysML to discrete-event simulation to analyze electronic assembly systems." Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation-DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium. Society for Computer Simulation International, 2012.

Journal Articles

  • Peak, Russell, Leon McGinnis, and Chris Paredis. "Academia as an Educator in the World of MBSE." INSIGHT 18.2 (2015): 30-34.
  • Rahul C. Basole, Ahsan Qamar, Hyunwoo Park, Christiaan J.J. Paredis, Leon F. McGinnis, "Visual Analytics for Early-Phase Complex Engineered System Design Support", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol.35, no. 2, pp. 41-51, Mar.-Apr. 2015, doi:10.1109/MCG.2015.3
  • Mönch, Lars, Peter Lendermann, Leon McGinnis, and Arnd Schirrmann. "Editorial: Special Issue on Grand Challenges for Discrete Event Logistics Systems." Computers in Industry, 62.6 (2011).
  • Kim, Hansoo, Leon F. McGinnis, and Chen Zhou. "On fidelity and model selection for discrete event simulation." Simulation 88.1 (2012): 97-109.
  • Lars Mönch, Peter Lendermann, Leon F. McGinnis, Arnd Schirrmann, A survey of challenges in modelling and decision-making for discrete event logistics systems, Computers in Industry, Volume 62, Issue 6, August 2011, Pages 557-567, ISSN 0166-3615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2011.05.001.
  • Peak, Russell, Chris Paredis, Leon McGinnis, Sanford Friedenthal, Roger Burkhart, ” Integrating System Design with Simulation and Analysis Using SysML,” INCOSE Insight Special Edition on MBSE, vol 12, issue 4, December, 2009, 40-43.

Presentations

  • Presentation to INCOSE Great Lakes Regional Conference, Oct 19, 2018
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  • Closing plenary address at the 2018 International Material Handling Research Colloquium in Savannah, GA, July 26, 2018.
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  • The "Dagstuhl Taiwan" seminar recreated a conventional Dagstuhl Seminar, but in Hsinchu, Taiwan instead of Wadern, Germany.  This presentation addresses a fundamental issue, not just in wafer fab simulations, but in all manufacturing system simulations where operational control must be explicitly modelled.
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  • Plenary address to the 2018 International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Intelligence, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan at National Tsing Hua University.  
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  • History and Perspective of Simulation in Manufacturing, an invited paper/talk at the 50th anniversary Winter Simulation Conference
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  • A talk to the Material Handling Teachers Institute on teaching systems design to undergrads.
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  • A talk that explores the opportunity to harvest 40 years of innovation in product design to enable a new generation of logistics systems decision support.
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  • A talk given at Arizona State University in 2001, identifying 4 uniquely "IE" grand challenges.  These challenges have guided the Keck Lab research agenda since its founding in 1996.
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Posters

  • The problem is overlapping waves into automated sortation when there are more destinations than sort lanes, which leads to sort errors and re-sorting.  The mitigation strategy is minimizing the variance of fulfillment times, so that wave overlap is reduced.
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Other Reports

  • What Distinguishes the ISE Undergraduate Curriculum

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