r-simmer
Add to Wikipedia list of DES software
I know that page, and it would be great. In fact, I've seen simmer going in and out in several times from that list. The thing is, rules say that a simulator must have its own Wikipedia page (e.g., Simpy has one) in order to be allowed in that list. So someone should create that page in the first place; and I can't, because I'm the author (again, Wikipedia's rules)... :-)
I'm not an author :-)
Would this be an appropriate place to draft a page, or would the Wikipedians object to that too?
Notability is probably the critical point:
at least three high-quality sources that a) have substantial discussion of the subject (not just a mention) and b) are written and published independently of the subject - Wikipedia
I couldn't find any at first glance :-/
We have, at least:
- A JSS paper, which is a primary source, yes, but it's a peer-reviewed article in a quite important journal nonetheless.
- This paper has citations, i.e., secondary sources that talk about
simmer. - An independent YouTube video.
- This project published in Code Project.
- This blog post written by Norm Matloff, a CS Professor at UC Davis.
- More independent blog posts: 1, 2, 3, at least, after a quick search.
- A Master's Dissertation by independent authors at UGent.
- A book by independent authors.
As an update:
- The JSS paper accumulates 59 citations according to Google Scholar.
- There are more bachelor and master's thesis out there using simmer.
- More articles: e.g. this (in Spanish) and this.
- There are a number of workshops too. There's this nice ICU modelling workshop that @thigger did for the NHS-R Conference. But I also found this, this, this and this by @koendegeling, and several short courses on Coursera.
- There are a number of projects out there modelling COVID-19 patient flows using simmer, but among them, the most notable one is the BaBSim.Hospital package (CRAN, paper).