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Integration of Agent Based Modelling in DEVS for Utilisation Analysis: The MoreSpace Project at TU Vienna
von Shabnam TauböckThis ambitious PhD-thesis is an outcome of the MoreSpace Project of TU Vienna, which is aiming for a better utilization of the lecture rooms. The author, key researcher in this project - introduced dynamic simulation at various levels in order to solve veritable bottleneck problems and lecture room shortages. This volume presents the complex overall simulation model, the generation of this simulation model from databases, and experiments with the model for better lecture room utiliza-tion and other system improvements. The simulation model consists of a combination of an agent-based model, describing the behaviour of the students when attending lectures, and a process model for the lecture rooms, including pathways within and between university buildings. The simu-lation model is gene-rated automatically from university databases: inscription data and curricula data drive the agent-based model, and building maps and lecture room data drive the process model. The prototype implementation in Java and Enterprise Dynamics is controlled by a graphical experimentation interface, allowing various simulation frames: classical semester investigations, long-term simulations over years for planning of university building construction, and short-term simulations for rescheduling in case of interruptions of the schedules - and can be used also for other teaching institutions due to the database parametrization.