In recent years, there has been significant interest in developing system dynamics
simulation models to analyze complex healthcare problems. However, there is a lack of …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Discrete-event simulation (DES) and lean are approaches that have a similar motivation:
improvement of processes and service delivery. Both are being used to help improve the …

An emergency department (ED) has been considered as one of the most congested
department in a hospital. The congestion is typically contributed by long waiting time to get …

Rationale, aims, and objectives As the Sustainable Development Goals are rolled out
worldwide, development leaders will be looking to the experiences of the past to improve …

This article aims to present examples of computer simulation models that support decision-
making processes in the health care sector. The objective of this review is to propose a …

Background Numerous studies examine simulation modelling in healthcare. These studies
present a bewildering array of simulation techniques and applications, making it challenging …

Following a major disaster, hospitals must promptly rearrange their organization and
treatment procedures to deal with the sudden arrival of a high number of injured people to …

Healthcare has material-centric external and patient-centric internal logistics. Researchers
widely use simulation approaches to model healthcare internal logistics due to the problem …

It has become important to improve the energy efficiency of high performance PC clusters. In
PC clusters, high-performance microprocessors have a dynamic voltage and frequency …