Simulation as a means of providing input data to the Collaborative Synchronization Management Tool (CSMT)

The Collaborative Synchronization Management Tool (CSMT) is an analysis tool that enables morphological and statistical analysis of plans. Input to the CSMT consists of a Cross Impact Matrix (CIM) where the relationships between the different activities of a plan are reflected as its values. This thesis proposes Modeling and Simulation as an alternative method of generating the CIM-values. The usage of this method will hopefully increase traceability and limit subjectivity, and will also be less time-consuming. Challenges such as determining the level of model detail, and finding a suitable case scenario have to be overcome for more conclusive results. However, the results have provided positive indicators to the usefulness of the generation method of CIM-values.