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Title: | Distributed simulation with COTS simulation packages: A case study in health care supply chain simulation |
Authors: | Mustafee, N Taylor, S J E Katsaliaki, K Brailsford, S |
Keywords: | Distributed Simulation;Commercial Simulation Packages;Supply Chain Simulation;Discrete-event Simulation |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, Monterey, December 2006. pp. 1136-1142 |
Abstract: | The UK National Blood Service (NBS) is a public funded body that is responsible for distributing blood and asso-ciated products. A discrete-event simulation of the NBS supply chain in the Southampton area has been built using the commercial off-the-shelf simulation package (CSP) Simul8. This models the relationship in the health care supply chain between the NBS Processing, Testing and Is-suing (PTI) facility and its associated hospitals. However, as the number of hospitals increase simulation run time be-comes inconveniently large. Using distributed simulation to try to solve this problem, researchers have used techniques informed by SISO’s CSPI PDG to create a version of Simul8 compatible with the High Level Architecture (HLA). The NBS supply chain model was subsequently divided into several sub-models, each running in its own copy of Simul8. Experimentation shows that this distri-buted version performs better than its standalone, conven-tional counterpart as the number of hospitals increases. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3997 |
Appears in Collections: | Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Research Papers |
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