SimLab graduate student Bradley J. Bartos and SimLab Director Dr. Richard McCleary published a new paper to SSRN, “Generic Discrete-Event Simulation Model of a Prison”. The paper describes a generic discrete-event simulation (DES) model of a prison system. The model tracks individual entities through a prison “career,” beginning with admission and ending with release from custody. Career stage transitions are modeled as discrete events that occur in real time. With each career transition (or state-change) the model pauses to update the appropriate subpopulation databases. Entities carry information tags into and through the model. The tags can be used to create arbitrary subpopulations for forecasting or analysis. Download a version of the paper here.
Manuscript Published to SSRN: Generic Discrete-Event Simulation Model of a Prison
June 6, 2017 by