Proposing a Participative Modelling Framework for Discrete Event Simulation Studies

This paper puts forward PartiSim which is a participative framework for discrete event simulation (DES) consisting of six stages that span from the study initiation to implementation. Four of these stages involve facilitating the group of stakeholders in a workshop environment. These workshops enable collaboration by providing a forum for discussion and information sharing with the view to gaining a common understanding and developing actions to address the problem concerned by the stakeholders involved. The paper provides the motivation for such a study and a description of the aims of each stage. The paper concludes with some observations from the authors´ experience of using this framework in terms of the usefulness of the framework to the modellers and stakeholders. Further research in collaborative and facilitated DES is recommended.