Prospective Healthcare Decision-Making by Combined System Dynamics, Discrete-Event and Agent-Based Simulation

Djanatliev A, German R (2013)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2013

Publisher: IEEE Press

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

City/Town: Piscataway, NJ

Pages Range: 270-281

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference

Event location: Washington, D.C. US

ISBN: 978-1-4799-3950-3

URI: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6721426&isnumber=6721384

DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721426

Abstract

Prospective Health Technology Assessment allows early decision making for innovative health care technologies. The main idea is to combine available domain knowledge with advanced simulation techniques in order to predict the effects of medical products and to find bottlenecks and weaknesses within the health system. In our recent publications a hybrid simulation approach with System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modeling has been presented. Hospital workflows have been modeled by state charts within agent behavioral models and have to be instantiated each time an agent is entering a hospital. This paper presents a mechanism to generate agents dynamically from SD models and extends the previously presented hybrid approach by process-oriented Discrete Event Simulation for hospital modeling. It connects processes to health care institutions and not to persons traversing them. Two extended example case studies show potentials for medical decision making using the three simulation paradigms in a common environment. © 2013 IEEE.

Authors with CRIS profile

Anatoli Djanatliev Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Reinhard German Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems)

How to cite

APA:

Djanatliev, A., & German, R. (2013). Prospective Healthcare Decision-Making by Combined System Dynamics, Discrete-Event and Agent-Based Simulation. In R. Pasupathy, S.-H. Kim, A. Tolk, R. Hill, M. E. Kuhl, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 270-281). Washington, D.C., US: Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press.

MLA:

Djanatliev, Anatoli, and Reinhard German. "Prospective Healthcare Decision-Making by Combined System Dynamics, Discrete-Event and Agent-Based Simulation." Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2013, Washington, D.C. Ed. R. Pasupathy, S.-H. Kim, A. Tolk, R. Hill, M. E. Kuhl,, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2013. 270-281.

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