Proposing a Participative Modelling Framework for Discrete Event Simulation Studies

This paper puts forward PartiSim which is a participative framework for discrete event simulation (DES) consisting of six stages that span from the study initiation to implementation. Four of these stages involve facilitating the group of stakeholders in a workshop environment. These workshops enable collaboration by providing a forum for discussion and information sharing with the view to gaining a common understanding and developing actions to address the problem concerned by the stakeholders involved. The paper provides the motivation for such a study and a description of the aims of each stage. The paper concludes with some observations from the authors' experience of using this framework in terms of the usefulness of the framework to the modellers and stakeholders. Further research in collaborative and facilitated DES is recommended.