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HCCM - A Control World View For Health Care Discrete Event Simulation |
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Authors: |
Nikolaus Furian, Michael O’Sullivan, Cameron Walker,
Siegfried Voessner |
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(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited
by: Flaminio Squazzoni,
Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-8-1 28th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia,
Italy, May 27th – 30th,
2014 |
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Nikolaus Furian, Michael O’Sullivan, Cameron Walker, Siegfried Voessner (2014).
HCCM - A Control World View For
Health Care Discrete Event Simulation, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0206 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0206 |
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Abstract: |
The classical world-views of
discrete event simulation (DES) are event scheduling, activity scanning and process
interaction. A fourth approach, the three-phase method, extends activity
scanning and is often regarded as another world-view. These world-views
provide the theoretical framework for applying DES in practice. However, in
health care simulation, practitioners often face modeling challenges where
the concepts and methodologies described by these world-views are not able to
reflect either the dynamics or the entity flow of the system being modelled. This leads to individualized approaches and
solutions that do not build on a unified and standardized theoretical basis.
In this paper we present an extension to the activity scanning world-view based
on the needs of the health care sector that uses hierarchical control
structures as a more general, flexible and powerful tool to define health
care DES models. To demonstrate the strength and potential of the approach
two ongoing simulation studies are briefly outlined and the benefits of using
the new world-view for these models is discussed. |
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