A Hybrid Framework for Modeling Construction Operations Using Discrete Event Simulation and System Dynamics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hani Alzraiee ◽  
Osama Moselhi ◽  
Tarek Zayed
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Construction Operations ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Hybrid Framework

Multi-Methodology Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-128
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Multiple Methods ◽  
Soft Systems ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Pluralistic Approach ◽  
The Difference

The pluralistic approach in today's world needs combining multiple methods, whether hard or soft, into a multi-methodology intervention. The methodologies can be combined, sometimes from several different paradigms, including hard and soft, in the form of a multi-methodology so that the hard paradigms are positivistic and see the organizational environment as objective, while the nature of soft paradigms is interpretive. In this chapter, the combination of methodologies has been examined using soft systems methodologies (SSM) and simulation methodologies including discrete event simulation (DES), system dynamics (SD), and agent-based modeling (ABM). Also, using the ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions underlying the respective paradigms, the difference between SD, ABM, SSM; a synthesis of SSM and SD generally known as soft system dynamics methodology (SSDM); and a promising integration of SSM and ABM referred to as soft systems agent-based methodology (SSABM) have been proven.

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