Using ABMS to simulate Emergency Departments

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1239-1250

  Escudero Marin, Paula ^a   Pidd, Michael ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN INTENTIONS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE;

EMERGENCY ROOMS;

EID: 84858051730     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2011.6147773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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