HSMA - the little book of DES

An introduction to writing discrete event simulation models for healthcare (and beyond) in SimPy

Author

Dan Chalk and Sammi Rosser

Published

February 26, 2024

Licencing, Attribution and Acknowledgements

Licencing

Code Snippets

All code in this book is provided under the MIT Licence.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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Text

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Attribution and Acknowledgements

The content in this book is a combined effort, bringing together the knowledge of the Peninsula Collaborative for Operational Research and Design (PenCHORD) on the topic.

The content in part 1 and a large amount of part 2 is from a series of sessions given on discrete event simulation as part of the HSMA programme. These lectures and accompanying code examples were written by Dr Daniel Chalk and made available under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. The chapters often replicate the wording of these lectures nearly exactly, with minor tweaks and additions for readability and to better suit the format of a book made by Sammi Rosser.

The content in parts 3 and 4 is more of a mixture of content from the HSMA lectures along with brand new content written for this book, drawing on a range of work done by the wider PenCHORD team.

All work that has been adapted is licenced under the MIT Licence. To comply with the terms of this licence, the MIT licence is provided below.

MIT Licence of adapted code

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Adaptation into book format has been done throughout by Sammi Rosser.

HSMA 6: Lecture 1 - Slides - Github

HSMA 6: Lecture 2 - Slides - Github

HSMA 6: Lecture 3- Slides - Github