Morgan, Jennifer with Susan Howick and Valerie Belton, "Considering Combining: Designs for the Complementary Use of System Dynamics and Discrete Event Simulation", 2011 July 24-2011 July 28
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System Dynamics (SD) and Discrete-event simulation (DES) can be viewed as complementary approaches to modeling. Both are popular approaches and have been applied in a wide range of situations for various purposes. Reviewing the literature from the multimethodology field allows us to develop a modeling framework that considers the differing designs for the combination of SD and DES. The aim of the work described here is to test, reflect on and further develop this framework through an intervention, and to examine how the modeling approaches can be combined in practice.