Modeling and Simulation of Nuclear Medicine Patient Service Management in DEVS

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from the field of Operations Research and Management Sciences (OR/MS) for each planning decision. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, to position the planning decisions, a taxonomy is presented. This taxonomy provides health care managers and OR/MS researchers with a method to identify, break down and classify planning and control decisions. Second, following the taxonomy, for six health care services, we provide an exhaustive specification of planning and control decisions in resource capacity planning and control. For each planning and control decision, we structurally review the key OR/MS articles and the OR/MS methods and techniques that are applied in the literature to support decision making.

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“…Methods: computer simulation [338], mathematical programming [63], literature review [65,141,199,330].…”

Section: Tactical Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

et al. 2012

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“…Modular construction is one of the most important characteristics of DEVS because it allows the modeler to design and construct each model independently for optimal efficiency. As long as models adhere to certain protocols, they can interact which each other (Pérez et al, 2010). Accordingly, we use VLE (Virtual Laboratory Environment) for the implementation.VLE is an open source software and API under GPL which supports multimodelling and simulation by implementing the DEVS abstract simulator (Quesnel, Duboz, and Ramat, 2009).…”

Section: Related Work and Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

BPMN Coordination and Devs Network Architecture for Healthcare Organizations

Sbayou

Zacharewicz

Bouanan

et al. 2019

International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management

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The adoption of business processes (BP) can help healthcare providers in structuring the way information systems and people have to interact. Business process management (BPM) is a methodology that structures a way of representing system processes. At the same time, the human resources are organized in identified or implicit structures that allows individuals to exchange information either related to their work function or not. Nevertheless, the human organizations structure and communication channels are not, up to now, fully captured by the information systems. It may lead to losing part of the useful information exchanged by participants. Accordingly, this article focuses on multi-agent solutions representing social networks in the healthcare domain associated with BPM of patient pathways. The purpose is to study the feasibility of combining BP with agent-based models in order to better improve performance, manage resources, and ensure coordination between them.

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“…2,3 DEVS has also been used successfully in diverse areas, ranging from natural systems to human-made dynamic systems. [4][5][6][7] In most DEVS M&S environments, model behavior and structure are defined using high-level programming languages (such as C ++ or Java), making modeling more difficult for non-expert developers, and introducing difficulties for model validation. DEVS (and other) simulation tools can be difficult to extend with new features, as sometimes they are developed from the ground up without using standard user interfaces and technologies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Graphical modeling and simulation of discrete-event systems with CD++Builder

2012

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We introduce CD ++ Builder, an open-source environment that aims at providing easy-to-use graphical modeling tools to simplify the construction of models and the execution of simulations of complex Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) models. The architecture and implementation of CD ++ Builder focuses on providing simple definition and reuse of components, offering easy extensibility to support new features. CD ++ Builder includes graphical editors for DEVScoupled models, DEVS-Graphs and C ++ atomic models; it provides code templates that are synchronized with their graphical versions, and it greatly simplifies the software installation and update procedures. We show how this environment can be used to build and simulate DEVS models, and we compare the process with previous versions and other simulation tools, showing that CD ++ Builder can improve model development by creating DEVS models in a completely assisted manner, including advanced graphical interfaces.

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Modeling and Simulation of Nuclear Medicine Patient Service Management in DEVS

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Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

BPMN Coordination and Devs Network Architecture for Healthcare Organizations

Graphical modeling and simulation of discrete-event systems with CD++Builder

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