Seminar 21st November 2013 4 p.m. Building 54, Room 8033 (8B)
Simulating Large Models: A Framework for Simulating a Regional Emergency Medical Service
Simon Taylor and Anastasia Anagostou
Brunel University
- Submitter
- Luke Goater
Abstract:
The typical view of a simulation modelling project is the single modeller working with stakeholders to develop and simulate a model of their system. The modeller uses a single COTS simulation package running on a single computer to build a single model. Arguably this places a practical limit on the size of model being simulated, unless model detail is sacrificed as a compromise. Distributed simulation offers a potentially attractive alternative to this problem of size. However, for OR/MS practitioners, technological complexity has placed a major barrier to its use. This presentation gives an overview of efforts that have been made to simplify its use and gives a case study that investigates how distributed simulation could be used to simulate a large-scale regional emergency medical service. The case study also discusses how both agent-based simulation (the ambulance service) and discrete-event simulation (A&E departments) can be used together in this distributed simulation framework.
SIMON J.E. TAYLOR founded and chairs the COTS Simulation Package Interoperability Standards Group under SISO. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the UK Operational Research Society's (ORS) Journal of Simulation (awarded its first impact factor of 0.74 in 2013). He was chair of ACM's SIGSIM (2005-2008). He is a Reader in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel and leads the ICT Innovation Group. He has published over 150 articles in modelling and simulation. His recent work has focused on the development of standards for distributed simulation in industry www.cloudsme.eu and research infrastructures in Africa www.eI4Africa.eu His email address is Simon.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk
ANASTASIA ANAGNOSTOU is a PhD candidate at School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, UK. She holds an MSc in Telemedicine and e-Health Systems and a BSc in Electronic Engineering. Her research interests are related to the application of modelling and simulation techniques within the healthcare sector. Her email address is Anasta-sia.Anagnostou01@brunel.ac.uk