has characteristic is hybrid of http://identifiers.org/doi/10.1093/bib/bbn050 The basic idea of hybrid simulation methods is to combine the advantages of complementary simulation approaches: the whole system is subdivided into appropriate parts and different simulation methods operate on these parts at the same time. 'is hybrid of' is a relation between the complex simulation method and algorithms it applies to the different parts of the system. uses modelling and simulation algorithm hybridity