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Chapter 1 Getting Started : Tutorial 5 - Viewing and Comparing the Results of Simulation

Tutorial 5 - Viewing and Comparing the Results of Simulation
In the previous tutorial, we changed the case distribution to the Adjust Loss and Process Claimant Activities from 50:50 to 25:75. This affects the utilization of the Participants involved. TIBCO Business Studio provides a Simulation Report view that will illustrate the effect of this change.
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In the Project Explorer, expand the Simulation folder and its sub-folders and select the relevant .sim files that were created when you simulated the process (for example, 2006-03-11_15-56-38.sim). Highlight the .sim files that you want to compare, right-click and select Compare Simulation Results.
This opens the Compare Simulation Results view.
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Case Cost-Time Analysis - shows charts and tables that display such information as the minimum, average and maximum case times for each experiment.
Participant Utilization - shows charts that display idle time and costs for the Participants in the process.
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Select Participant Utilization and click Display Report.
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The comparison report is generated and displayed (you can also save the Case Cost-Time Analysis and Participant Utilization reports to HTML and PDF formats). Remember that the difference between the two simulations was the distribution of cases to the Claims Handler and Loss Adjuster participants. The first chart shows that the overall Participant idle time (expressed in total minutes) has increased:
To see why this is so, look at the next two charts, which show Participant Idle time. This is the chart with a 50:50 distribution:
The second chart shows the 75:25 distribution:
Because fewer cases are sent to the Loss Adjuster, this Participant’s idle time has increased. This is also reflected in lower utilization in the Tutorial 4 results.
You can save Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML versions of the comparison report by clicking the appropriate button.
Continue with the next tutorial to see how to use looping with your simulation.

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