An agent-based model, incorporating a small set of primarily agent-based variables, was designed to explain land-use decision making. Agents are land-owners, who allocate their labour and land for di#erent uses in regular time intervals. The goal is to understand what kind of spatial patterns

This work extends ongoing development of a framework for modeling the spread of contact-transmission infectious diseases. The framework is built upon Agent Based Modeling (ABM), with emphasis on urban scale modelling integrated with institutional models of hospital emergency departments. The method

be determined based on user preferences and business policies, and consider the trustworthiness of service instances. We propose a multiagent approach that naturally provides a solution to the selection problem. This approach is based on an architecture and programming model in which agents represent

to solve this key problem faced by orthopedic departments. From the data collected, patient behaviors are modeled and incorporated into a massive agent-based simulation. The proposed approach is an aid for analyzing and modifying orthopedic department processes, allows us to consider far more details

Computer simulation methods have enjoyed widespread use in healthcare system investigation and improvement. Most reported applications use discrete event simulation, though there are also many reports of the use of system dynamics. There are few reports of the use of agent-based simulations (ABS

Abstract. In this paper, an innovative application of scheduling methodology is advocated for the emerging service, which is named “social coordination ” in the ubiquitous information environments. The author explains the concept of “ubiquitous scheduling ” that eludes congestions in the society

a combination of agent-based and complex network-based modeling approaches and guidelines formulated in the form of a set of four levels of usage, which allow multidisciplinary researchers to adopt a suitable framework level on the basis of available data types, their research study objectives

This dissertation focuses on the operational impacts of crowding in hospital emergency departments. The body of this work is comprised of three essays. In the first essay, "Waiting Patiently: An Empirical Study of Queue Abandonment in an Emergency Department, " we study queue abandonment

and workloads. Here we demonstrate the application of a safety dynamics model proposed by Cook and Rasmussen 4, to study a health care system using a hypothetical simulation of an emergency department as a representative unit of a health care system and its dynamic behavior. By means of simulation, this paper

in Emergency Departments (EDs) have improved since 2000 (following central government funding). At the same time the case-mix of children attending ED’s is changing, with less serious illness or injury, and more children with minor, self-limiting conditions being brought by parents and carers who find