TY - JOUR T1 - Three-Stage Procedure and Expected Opportunity Cost for Selecting a Good Simulated Design AU - Baharum, Adam AU - H. Almomani, Mohammad AU - Abdul Rahman, Rosmanjawati JO - Research Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 5 IS - 6 SP - 417 EP - 423 PY - 2010 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1815-932x DO - rjasci.2010.417.423 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2010.417.423 KW - indifference zone KW -Opportunity cost KW -ranking and selection KW -ordinal optimization KW -subset selection KW -Malaysia AB - Three-stage procedure is used to select one of the best simulated designs with high probability. This procedure involves three stages that consists the ordinal optimization approach, subset selection approach and indifference-zone approach. Normally the three-stage procedure focuses on the probability of correct selection as a measure of selection quality. Another measure of selection quality is the expected opportunity cost of a potentially incorrect selection where the opportunity cost in the simulation selection problem is defined as the difference of unknown mean between the selected best design and the actual best design. In this study, we select a good simulated design using the three-stage procedure and utilizing the expected opportunity cost of a potentially incorrect selection. The results of the numerical example show that the procedure selects a good simulated design with high probability and minimum expected opportunity cost. ER -