Methoden vergleichen

	Microsimulation	Discrete-Event Simulation (DES)
Fachgebiet	Simulation	Simulation
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1957	1960s (formalized); modern computational form from 1970s onward
Urheber	Guy Orcutt (concept, 1957); modern tax-transfer frameworks developed through EUROMOD and related projects	Banks, Carson, Nelson & Nicol (textbook lineage); foundational work by Tocher & Conway (1960s)
Typ	Policy simulation / computational social science	Stochastic process simulation
Wegweisende Quelle	O'Donoghue, C. (Ed.) (2014). Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling. Emerald.	Banks, J., Carson, J.S., Nelson, B.L. & Nicol, D.M. (2010). Discrete-Event System Simulation (5th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0136062127
Aliasnamen	Mikrosimülasyon, micro-simulation, policy microsimulation	DES, event-driven simulation, Ayrık Olay Simülasyonu (DES)
Verwandt	5	4
Zusammenfassung	Microsimulation is a computational method that simulates policy effects by operating directly on a population of individual micro-units — households, firms, patients — and applying rules to each unit according to its own demographic, economic, and behavioural characteristics. Developed conceptually by Guy Orcutt in 1957, it has become the standard tool for evaluating tax reform, pension systems, and health policy before implementation.	Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) is a computational modeling paradigm in which the state of a system changes only at a countable sequence of points in time — the events. Between events nothing changes, so the simulation clock jumps directly from one event to the next. Formalized through the foundational textbooks of Banks, Carson, Nelson and Nicol and of Law in the 1960s–2000s, DES has become the standard tool for analyzing queuing systems, healthcare patient flows, manufacturing lines, and logistics networks where entities move through resources over time.