Hospital length of stay of patients is a crucial factor for the effective planning and
management of hospital resources. There is considerable interest in predicting the LoS of …

Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a stochastic modeling approach widely used to address
dynamic and complex systems, such as healthcare. In this review, academic databases …

Heavy dependence on personal vehicle usage made the transportation sector a major
contributor to global climate change and air pollution in cities. In this study, we analyzed …

Hybrid simulation (defined as a modelling approach that combines two or more of the
following methods: discrete-event simulation, system dynamics, and agent-based …

Background The objective was to explore the current advances and extent of DES (Discrete
Event Simulation) applied to assisting with health decision making, as well as to categorize …

In recent years, there has been significant interest in develo** system dynamics
simulation models to analyze complex healthcare problems. However, there is a lack of …

Discrete event simulation (DES) and system dynamics (SD) are two modelling approaches
widely used as decision support tools in logistics and supply chain management (LSCM). A …

Abstract Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been widely used in modelling health-care
systems for many years and a simple citation analysis shows that the number of papers …

This paper describes how system dynamics was used as a central part of a whole-system
review of emergency and on-demand health care in Nottingham, England. Based on …

In recent years there has been significant interest in multimethodology and the mixing of
OR/MS methods, including Discrete Event Simulation (DES) with System Dynamics (SD) …