
250 Discrete Event Simulation for Health Technology Assessment
counts of the number of people it contains, and any other information that is
required to properly process its experience and assess whether it can remain
as a group or should be dissolved. If one or more entities are separated
from the super entity, they should carry in their own attributes information
about which group they belonged to, and any information accumulated in
the super entity’s attributes that is relevant to their subsequent experience
(e.g.,time spent in the group).
For this approach to be worth the additional processing involved in group-
ing and splitting, the ti