How to Facilitate Hybrid Model Development by Rebuilding the Demographic Simulation Model

Demographic information can be used to analyze processes occurring in a wide range of human social activity: in the area of management, healthcare, social security systems. One of the leading methods of demographic modeling is continuous simulation based on the system dynamics approach. Reducing computation time for fast-running continuous model implementations enables efficient development of hybrid models. In the hybrid simulation model, the discrete-event simulation approach was used as one of the components. Technical and conceptual solutions to the observed problems were presented, experiments based on demographic data from the Wrocław region, Poland were performed and it was indicated that an effective hybrid simulation will allow to include additional cause-and-effect relationships in the models.