ABSTRACT In 2007, the Journal of Simulation ran the first ever journal issue dedicated to
conceptual modelling for discrete-event simulation. The editorial for that issue reported on a …

The Electronic Health Records (EHR) sharing system is the state of art for delivering
healthcare. The tools within the system can predict outcomes during the patient's lifetime …

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play significant roles in the
improvement of patient care and the reduction of healthcare cost by facilitating the seamless …

Several fields have created ontologies for their subdomains. For example, the biological
sciences have developed extensive ontologies such as the Gene Ontology, which is …

This paper is an attempt to transfer some results in the meta-theory of conceptual modeling
of software systems to discrete event simulation modeling. We present DESO, a foundational …

While ontology deals with the question of being or existence, epistemology deals with the
question of gaining knowledge. This panel addresses the challenge of how we gain …

The challenges in cost-effectively deploying simulation technology are well known. Two
major challenges are creating an appropriate conceptual model and translating that …

Progress in programming paradigms and languages has over time influenced the way that
simulation programs are written. Modern object-oriented, functional programming languages …

Ontologies are formal specifications of concepts. They represent entities of a specific
knowledge domain and the relationships that can hold between the entities. Ontologies are …

In modelling and simulation, ontologies can be used for the formal definition of methods and
techniques (methodological ontologies), as well as for the representation of parts of reality …