Scientific evaluation of polyclinic operating strategies with discrete-event simulation

Scientific Evaluation of Polyclinic Operating Strategies with Discrete-event Simulation

A subsidized primary care clinic in Singapore wanted to evaluate the impact of different patient appointment apportionment and patient-doctor allocation strategies on the cycle time that their patients need to spend during their clinic visits. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is limited literature on such studies. This paper aims to fill this research gap via scientific evaluation o...

Evaluation of carsharing network's growth strategies through discrete event simulation

Evaluation of manpower scheduling strategies at outpatient pharmacy with discrete-event simulation

An outpatient pharmacy of a tertiary hospital in Singapore had uncertainty over the impact of different manpower scheduling strategies on the length of time (that is, cycle time) that their patients needed to spend during their visits. This article illustrated how this uncertainty could be addressed via application of discrete-event simulation (DES). Recent service rates of pharmacy staff and m...

TWLinuX : Operating System Support for Optimistic Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

Parallel or Distributed Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) refers to the concurrent execution of a single discrete event simulation application on a parallel or distributed computing system. Most available PDES implementations provide user level library support for writing distributed simulation applications. We discuss how OS support can be designed to facilitate optimistic PDES of large, comple...

Discrete Event Simulation in Interactive Scientific and Technical Computing Environments

The integration of discrete event simulation methods into Scientiic and Technical Computing Environments (SCEs) extends their functionality and opens new ways for a convenient interactive modelling and simulation. Because of the wide range of algorithms provided by SCEs, it also ooers lots of possibilities for solving complex problems with simulations in an uniform environment. The paper discus...