DocumentCode :
3028231
Title :
Prospective healthcare decision-making by combined system dynamics, discrete-event and agent-based simulation
Author :
Djanatliev, Anatoli ; German, Reinhard
Author_Institution :
Comput. Networks & Commun. Syst., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
fYear :
2013
fDate :
8-11 Dec. 2013
Firstpage :
270
Lastpage :
281
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.
Keywords :
decision making; decision support systems; discrete event simulation; health care; hospitals; multi-agent systems; SD models; agent behavioral models; agent-based modeling; agent-based simulation; domain knowledge; health care institutions; hospital workflows; hybrid simulation approach; medical products; process-oriented discrete event simulation; prospective health technology assessment; prospective healthcare decision-making; state charts; system dynamics; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Decision making; Economics; Hospitals; Load modeling;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference (WSC), 2013 Winter
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2077-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2013.6721426
Filename :
6721426
Link To Document :
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