Conceptual modelling for designing large-scale simulations

A participative and facilitative conceptual modelling framework for discrete event simulation studies in healthcare

“…He furthermore puts forward the expected outputs of this process, starting with an understanding of the problem situation, to specifying the objectives, inputs, outputs, model content, assumptions and simplifications of the model (Robinson, 2008a). A number of other frameworks have been developed in the literature which aim to guide the CM process in DES studies (Robinson et al, 2011;Balci and Ormsby, 2007;Balci et al, 2008).…”

“…Some CM frameworks capture the needs of a particular domain context such as the military domain (Shannon 1975;Pace 1999Pace , 2000Balci and Ormsby, 2007). Another domain-specific CM framework has been developed by Van der Zee (2007), which borrows decomposition principles from engineering, to support conceptual modelling for simulation in manufacturing.…”

“…However, the study does not provide specific details about how the stakeholders are involved in the process. Involving stakeholders, also known as subject matter experts, in CM is also proposed by Balci and Ormsby (2007). Balci et al (2008) who view that CM takes place at a high level of abstraction do not explain how subject-matter experts can be involved in an interactive abstraction process.…”

“…Conceptual modeling is about deciding what to model and how to model it (Robinson, 2004;Law, 2007). While there is no overall agreement in the simulation community about the role of CM in DES studies (van der Zee et al, 2010;van der Zee et al, 2011) a number of authors prescribe how to undertake CM (Pace, 1999(Pace, , 2000Balci and Ormsby, 2007;Robinson, 2008a,b;Kotiadis, 2007).…”

Achieving reusability and composability with a simulation conceptual model

“…A CM is expected to be made available for a community of interest (COI) such as air traffic control, automobile manufacturing, ballistic missile defense, business process reengineering, emergency response management (ERM), homeland security, military training, network-centric operations and warfare, supply chain management, telecommunications, and transportation. M&S application designers can be assisted by a CM in the design of large-scale complex M&S applications for solving problems in the COI for which the CM is provided (Balci and Ormsby, 2007).…”