G. Wurzer, W Lorenz:
"Causality in Hospital Simulation Based on Utilization Chains";
Talk: SimAUD 2014, Tampa, FL; 2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16; in: "Proceedings of SimAUD 2014", (2014), 161 - 164.

The operation of complex buildings (e.g. airports, hospitals, industrial facilities, penitentiaries) is commonly simulated forward in time: Agents arrive and perform their prescribed tasks, utilizing resources and space as required. When trying to understand the model's state at a certain point in time, say, "why is this resource over-utilized", one must either guess or run the simulation again to determine what the cause is. Our contribution lies in the introduction of causal chains into the workflow of an agent-based simulation, so that an end user (in our case: process planner and hospital architect) can get a further insight into the intermediate simulation result at a certain point in time, without having to re-run it.

Early-Stage, Hospital Planning, Visualization

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_229966.pdf