Dr Athary A. Alwasel


PhD candidate, Business Analytics
MSc in Information Technology

Academic and research departments

Surrey Business School, Business Analytics and Operations.

Research

Research interests

Publications

Athary Alwasel, Masoud Fakhimi, Navonil Mustafee, Lampros K. Stergioulas (2025)Modeling & Simulation for Behavioral Analysis in Healthcare: A Review, In: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Healthcare is a service-based system where patients and providers (clinicians, managers) are integral to the system's overall functioning. As a human-centric system at both the demand and supply sides, it is important to consider the behavioral aspects of the entities that make up the healthcare system and their effect on system performance. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is widely used in healthcare to give stakeholders better insights into real-world problems; incorporating human behavior makes the models more realistic and leads to more informed decision-making. M&S for behavioral analysis (BA) seeks to understand and explore individuals' behavior and reactions to different interventions within healthcare systems. We reviewed 59 papers published between 1992 and 2023 to synthesize existing literature and ascertain its current development. Our findings show that in most studies, the impact of human behavior is either ignored, studied unsystematically, or treated as a second-order effect. The study contributes to the understanding of M&S methodologies for BA in healthcare.

Athary Alwasel, Lampros Stergioulas, Masoud Fakhimi, Wolfgang Garn (2021)Assessing Patient Engagement in Health Care: Proposal for a Modeling and Simulation Framework for Behavioral Analysis, In: JMIR research protocols10(12)pp. e30092-e30092 JMIR