Resumen de Integration of discrete event simulation with other modeling techniques to simulate construction engineering and management: an overview
Although Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been the preferred simulation technique in construction opera-tion studies, it suffers from limitations, such as narrowed focus at the operational level. To minimize the effect of DES limitations, researchers have proposed the integration of DES with other simulation techniques, such as agent-based mod-eling (ABM), system dynamics (SD), and virtual environments (VE). However, limited studies have discussed whether this integration process minimizes DES’ limitationsand to what extent. This study summarizes 99 journal manuscripts in the existing literature publishedbetween 2010-2020, focusing on integratingDES with ABM, SD, and VE. This study found that the integration of DES with ABM, SD, and VE addressed multipleof DES’ limitations, namely, the lack of human behaviors in process-oriented modeling, the limited strategic perspective, and challenges related to the verification and validation of DES models’ outputs. Ultimately,this study callsforfuture studies toevaluate the simultaneous integra-tion of DES, ABM, and SDmodeling techniques so the complexity of construction projects can be truly accounted for, as comprehensive simulation tools will require the integration of multiple methods to counterbalance theirlimitations.
