Table 5. Reported model descriptions in the papers.

Data collection

Structure

Input parameter

Statistical analyses

Validation

Documentation

Reference (year)

Case study

Literature

Interview

Time study

Official statistics

Modular design

Assumptions

Scenario analysis

Limitations

Repeated simulation runs

Warm-up period

Distribution fitting

Random number generation

Parameter description

Diagrams and Tables

Sensitivity analyses

Confidence intervals

Regressions

Statistical tests

Structured walk through

Comparing case study1

Comparing literature2

Animation and visualization

Expert/Manager involvement

Verbal

Flow diagram

Decision tree

Business process diagrams

Equations

Distribution descriptions

Screen shots

De Mol et al. (1997)

X

X

X

X

X

Asikainen (1998)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Asikainen (2001)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Myers and Richards (2003)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Saranen and Hilmola (2007)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mahmoudi et al. (2009)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Asikainen (2010)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mobini et al. (2011)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Beaudoin et al. (2012)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Cavalli et al. (2012)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Karttunen et al. (2012)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Zhang et al. (2012)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Karttunen et al. (2013)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mobini et al. (2013)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Windisch et al. (2013a)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Windisch et al. (2013b)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Zamora et al. (2013)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Eriksson et al. (2014a)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Eriksson et al. (2014b)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Etlinger et al. (2014)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Marques et al. (2014)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mobini et al. (2014)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Spinelli et al. (2014)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Windisch et al. (2015)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Pinho et al. (2016a)

X

X

X

X

X

Pinho et al. (2016b)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Wolfsmayr et al. (2016)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Eliasson et al. (2017)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Eriksson et al. (2017)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Kishita et al. (2017)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Väätäinen et al. (2017)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Gronalt and Rauch (2018)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

1Comparing simulation model results with real world case study data, 2Comparing simulation model results with literature data