In this work an approach to integrating agent based modeling into a discrete event simulation system is developed and tested in the course of a project done at the Vienna University of Technology. Discrete Event Simulation can be efficient and fast but people's behavior and movement is not easy to model. It would be convenient to develop a model, where both systems -discrete event and agent based -coexist. During the last years the feasibility of finding an equivalent discrete event model for any agent based model has already been discussed and formally proven in several publications. This implies that it should be possible to integrate any agent that is part of an agent based system into a discrete event system. An application of this theory is introduced in this work, showing in detail how the agent based approach was integrated in the discrete event simulation environment Enterprise Dynamics. The project supports and controls lecture room management and lecture schedule planning for many curriculas at
is a software project of Vienna University of technology for supporting the planning phase of 'University2015' -a project to renovate all university buildings and to improve the existing infrastructure and the inherent processes. determines and evaluates the spatial resources and time needs required and introduces a model for the room management that can simulate the usage of resources to optimize the planning of rooms and schedules. This contributions presents a part of the project, the dynamic simulation for the student pedestrian traffic, which takes into account time requirements for reaching different lecture hall buildings and lecture halls on an individual basis, allowing also to incorporate needs for physical handicapped persons. Modelling and simulation of this dynamic individual student traffic is based on advanced cellular automata model, which are integrated into other components (distributed DEVS model).
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