Systematic software development using VDM
Systematic software development using VDM
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
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Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation
Getting started in simulation in healthcare
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
Enterprise computing environments and cost assessment
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Enterprise modeling and analysis: an enterprise modeling and analysis toolkit
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Emerging issues in healthcare simulation
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Simulation of Manufacturing Systems
Simulation of Manufacturing Systems
Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work
Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work
A proposed approach for modeling healthcare systems for understanding
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Business Process Management: The Third Wave
Business Process Management: The Third Wave
Flexible Modeling and Execution of Workflow Activities
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems
Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems
Business process management: a survey
BPM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Business process management
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Both process modelling and simulation play an important role in understanding healthcare processes. Since IDEF0 can effectively capture requirements and is relatively easy to communicate, combining IDEF0 with simulation provides a promising way to analyse processes dynamically and to assist in decision-making. This paper explores the feasibility of building an environment that can be used to simulate real IDEF0 models for healthcare processes. EXPRESS language is used to capture the required information that would make an IDEF0 model capable of simulation. An example IDEF0 model simulator is developed in order to explore some of the issues in simulating healthcare processes. A prototype system structure for this simulator is provided in the paper. The healthcare process is used as an example application in this paper. An example IDEF0 model for "Identify Patient Safety Hazards" process represented by XML is loaded and simulated.