Activity diagrams for DEVS models: A case study modeling health care behavior (WIP)

Özgür Özmen, James Nutaro

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Abstract

Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) is a widely used formalism for modeling and simulation of discrete and continuous systems. While DEVS provides a sound mathematical representation of discrete systems, its practical use can suffer when models become complex. Five main functions, which construct the core of atomic modules in DEVS, can realize the behaviors that modelers want to represent. The integration of these functions is handled by the simulation routine; however, modelers can implement each function in various ways. Therefore, there is a need for graphical representations of complex models to simplify their implementation and facilitate their reproduction. In this work, we illustrate the use of activity diagrams for this purpose in the context of a health care behavior model, which is developed with an agent-based modeling paradigm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)129-134
Number of pages6
JournalSimulation Series
Volume47
Issue number8
StatePublished - 2015
EventSymposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation - DEVS Integrative M and S Symposium, DEVS 2015, Part of the 2015 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, SpringSim 2015 - Alexandria, United States
Duration: Apr 12 2015Apr 15 2015

Keywords

  • Activity diagram
  • Activity life-cycle
  • Agent-based
  • DEVS
  • Health care modeling

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