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040259 KU Advanced Quantitative Assessment of Public and Non-Profit Strategies I (MA) (2024W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Infos: http://www.univie.ac.at/itm/lehre/index.html
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Correct Dates:
Friday, 4th of October 2024, 8.30-12.30, Lecture hall 15, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2. floor
Friday, 18th of October 2024, 8.30-12.30, Lecture hall 15, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2. floor
Friday, 8th of November 2024, 8.30-12.30, Lecture hall 15, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2. floor
Friday, 6th of December 2024, 8.30-12.30, Lecture hall 15, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2. floor
Friday, 10th of January 2025, 8.30-12.30, Lecture hall 15, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2. floor
Friday, 17th of January 2025, 8.30-12.30, Lecture hall 15, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2. floor


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

http://pnpm.univie.ac.at/minormajor-pnpm/

This course gives an overview on using different simulation techniques to enhance planning and improvement of processes and systems behind public and non-profit organizations. Students learn about the principal functionality of simulation methods including their benefits and drawbacks. The course focuses on the techniques of system dynamics and discrete event simulation including several practical workshop examples elaborated by students. We also briefly discuss agent-based simulation. To demonstrate the wide application area of discrete event simulation policy models combined with optimization techniques, we present an example in the emergency medical management field regarding scheduling of mass casualty incidents for ambulance services such as the Austrian Samaritan Organization at the incident site. We use this disaster policy model as a management game for students in a workshop setting. Therefore, students learn essential lessons on emergency disaster management, scheduling emergency patients, and training emergency staff at ambulance services. For investigating further application areas, students pick and present a course paper on the improvement of process management by different and even hybrid simulation approaches in selected fields of public and non-profit management in an international context (e.g., education, environment, energy, health care, disaster management, recreation).

This course is interlinked with practice by giving the students the opportunity to join meetings of the forum of health economics (gesundheitspolitisches Forum): http://www.gesundheitspolitischesforum.at/ or ÖGOR meetings (e.g., health care, disaster management, energy): https://oegor.wordpress.com/

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral & written homework assignments

• All oral & written homework assignments have to follow the scientific guidelines: (https://pnpm.univie.ac.at/minormajorwahlfach-pnpm/).
• Each presentation should take up to 30 minutes (course paper) and up to 10 minutes (workshops).
• There should be a short discussion with the auditorium after the presentation.
• The use of the beamer is expected (legible slides).
• The quality of the presentations is part of the final grade.
• All files of the course paper (oral and written part) must be electronically turned in a day before the presentation on the moodle platform (1 x doc-file or ppt-file, 1x pdf-file).

• The printed versions of the slides are part of the final grade and have to be turned in at the University of Vienna, OMP 1, porter, Mailbox Rauner at the day of the presentation the latest. Please ONLY print one slide on ONE page on the front of the paper sheet!

Requirements for a positive grade (min. 50%)

• Attendance in class (20%), workshops (30%), and disaster game (10%)
• Presentation slides (30%) and presentation (10%) of a course paper based on given assignments. The written course paper and the oral presentations have to meet common scientific guidelines (i.e., listing of all references, providing adequate references, supplementing the text with tables and figures, avoiding plagiarism): https://pnpm.univie.ac.at/minormajorwahlfach-pnpm/

• The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the production of texts is only permitted if this is explicitly requested by the course instructor (e.g. for individual work tasks).

• Providing electronic files (docx/ppt AND pdf) via moodle (day before the presentation) as well as printed versions (at the day of the presentation in the mailbox Rauner at OMP 1) of the assigned course paper (presentation slides).

• Achieving a total score of at least 50%.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

• Attendance and Participation: max. 20%
(Moodle Quiz: 4x2 Points; Participation: 6x2 Points)
• Workshops: max. 30%
• Disaster Game: max. 10%
• Presentation of Course Paper: max. 10%
• Written Version of Course Paper: max. 30%

"1": 90%-100%
"2": 80%-89,75%
"3": 66%-79,75%
"4": 50%-65,75%
"5": <49,75% and/or missing in more than two block class sessions or plagiarism of homework paper

Registration and acceptance criteria:
The online registration for classes takes place at the beginning of the semester. Students with the highest amount of assigned points will be accepted. In case a student is absent during the first session, she/he will lose her/his place in the course so that other students from the waiting list may be accommodated.

Examination topics

See literature

For this course, current case studies from the international literature will be used.

For example, the following homework topics were used in SS 2022:

Group 1: Education
Tsao, M. W., & Wang, Y. C. (2022). System Dynamics Analysis of Flight Simulator Maintenance and Parts Inventory Management. International Journal of Organizational Innovation (Online), 14(4), 175-188.

Group 2: Environment
Han, F., Sun, M., Jia, X., Klemeš, J. J., Shi, F., & Yang, D. (2022). Agent-based model for simulation of the sustainability revolution in eco-industrial parks. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(16), 23117-23128.

Group 3: Energy
Uddin, M. N., Chi, H. L., Wei, H. H., Lee, M., & Ni, M. (2022). Influence of interior layouts on occupant energy-saving behaviour in buildings: An integrated approach using Agent- Based Modelling, System Dynamics and Building Information Modelling. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161, 112382.

Group 4: Health Care
Schoenfelder, J., Zarrin, M., Griesbaum, R., & Berlis, A. (2022). Stroke care networks and the impact on quality of care. Health Care Management Science, 25(1), 24-41.

Group 5: Disaster Management
Shi, Z., Yang, Z., & Liu, J. (2022). Assessing the Dynamic Resilience of Local Roads: A Case Study of Flooding in Wuhan, China. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022.

Group 6: Recreation
Shafiee, S., Jahanyan, S., Ghatari, A. R., & Hasanzadeh, A. (2022). Developing sustainable tourism destinations through smart technologies: A system dynamics approach. Journal of Simulation, 1-22.

• Oral presentation of all figures & tables
• Oral presentation & slides: see checklist for presentations! (30 minutes, 10 minutes discussion)
• Plagiarism check of the presentation slides!
https://pnpm.univie.ac.at/minormajorwahlfach-pnpm/

Reading list

All required learning materials will be provided on the e-learning website Moodle.

Main literature:
• Borshev, A. (2013) The Big Book of Simulation Modelling, edited by Anylogic NA.
• Grigoryev, I. (2015) AnyLogic 7 in three days. A quick course in simulation modeling, 2.
• Pidd, M. (2004) Computer Simulation in Management Science, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
• Brailsford, S., Churilov, L., Dangerfield, B. (eds.) (2014) Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making, John Wiley & Sons.
• Brennan A., Chick S., Davies R. (2006) A taxonomy of model structures for economic evaluation of health technologies, Health Economics, 15, 1295-1310.
• Cooper K., Brailsford S., Davies R. (2007) Choice of modelling technique for evaluating health care technologies, The Journal of Operational Research, 58(2), 168-176.
• Niessner, H., Rauner, M. S., & Gutjahr, W. J. (2018) A dynamic simulation-optimization approach for managing mass casualty incidents, Operations Research for Health Care, 17, 82-100.
• Rauner, M.S., Schaffhauser-Linzatti M.M., Niessner, H. (2012) Resource planning for ambulance services in mass casualty incidents: A DES-based policy model, Health Care Management Science, 15(3), 254-269.

Other literature:
• Amaran, S., Sahinidis, N. V., Sharda, B., & Bury, S. J. (2016). Simulation optimization: a review of algorithms and applications. Annals of Operations Research, 240(1), 351-380.
• Jahangirian, M., Naseer, A., Stergioulas, L., Young, T., Eldabi, T., Brailsford, S., ... & Harper, P. (2012). Simulation in healthcare: lessons from other sectors. Operational Research, 12(1), 45-55.
• Leopold, A. (2016). Energy related system dynamic models: a literature review. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 24(1), 231-261.
• Macal, C. M. (2016). Everything you need to know about agent-based modelling and simulation. Journal of Simulation, 10(2), 144-156.
• Mishra, D., Kumar, S., & Hassini, E. (in print). Current trends in disaster management simulation modelling research. Annals of Operations Research, 1-25.
• Zhang, X. (2018). Application of discrete event simulation in health care: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 687.

https://www.anylogic.com/resources/educational-videos/introduction-to-anylogic-software/

Agent Based Modeling: Consumer Choice Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zQy79EEyko

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