“…However, as with every method, DES has limitations that are important to be acknowledged, such as the need to discretize continuous data (Puri and Martinez, 2013), the lack of capacity to add feedback processes (Peña-Mora et al, 2008), and model verification and validation challenges (Zankoul et al, 2015). Of note, to compensate for these limitations, researchers have begun to integrate DES with other simulation techniques often used in the construction engineering and management (CEM) domain, such as agent-based modeling (e.g., Abdelkhalek and Zayed, 2020), system dynamics (e.g., Hwang et al, 2016;Xu et al, 2018), and virtual environments (e.g., Abbasi et al, 2020;Sacks et al, 2015). For instance, efforts have been made to propose a framework to integrate multiple simulation techniques, such as DES, SD, and ABM (Bokor et al, 2019).…”