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The Role of Discrete Event Simulation in Generating Insights. Anastasia Gogi Antuela A Tako & Stewart Robinson A.Gogi@lboro.ac.uk Loughborough University School of Business and Economics. 14 July 2014, 20 th Conference IFORS, Barcelona 2014. Contents.
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The Role of Discrete Event Simulation in Generating Insights Anastasia Gogi AntuelaA Tako & Stewart Robinson A.Gogi@lboro.ac.uk Loughborough University School of Business and Economics 14 July 2014, 20th Conference IFORS, Barcelona 2014
What is Insight? Rationale Where I am now Impasse Insight Where I want to be Aha! I think I know No, I didn’t know…
Research Questions Rationale 2. 1. Vs
Procedure Study design 0 7 10 15 Time (min) 45 50
Materials Study design Case Study Simulation Model • Animation • Statistics
Task Solvers Results Statistics Animation Control 59% (13/20) 48% (12/25) 25% (5/20)
Animation Vs Statistics Results 0% (0/20) 24% (6/25) 55% (11/20) 24% (6/25) 15% (3/20) 36% (9/25) 30% (6/20) 16% (4/25)