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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2009.25.1.art00047_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20090101)2009:2L.581;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v2009n2/splitsection47.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/2009/00002009/00000002/art00047</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Commercial Print Production Systems</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Zeng</surname>
            <given-names>Jun</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Lin</surname>
            <given-names>I-Jong</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hoarau</surname>
            <given-names>Eric</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Dispoto</surname>
            <given-names>Gary</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2009</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>581</fpage>
      <lpage>584</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Digital transformation of commercial print production brings new opportunities including exploitation of embedded sensing and computing power that enable real-time communication during various phases of the production chain, and dynamic reconfiguration of production flow. Simulation
 based modeling can help to exploit these opportunities at both strategic and operational level. In this paper we report our ongoing work on simulating a print production system. We draw close parallel between print production design and electronic design automation, and model print production
 system as a network of interconnected, distinct processes. We describe our simulation framework, preliminary results, and validation against queueing network theory.</p>
      </abstract>
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