Principles of simulation model validation, verification, and testing
Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Aiding Program Comprehension by Static and Dynamic Feature Analysis
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Using Abstraction in the Verification of Simulation Coercion
Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
New paradigms and new challenges
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Explanation Exploration: Exploring Emergent Behavior
Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
An empirical study of automatic event reconstruction systems
Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response
An Approach for Validation of Semantic Composability in Simulation Models
PADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE/SCS 23rd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
PADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE/SCS 23rd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
A time-based formalism for the validation of semantic composability
Winter Simulation Conference
On Validation of Semantic Composability in Data-Driven Simulation
PADS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
An Analysis of the Cost of Validating Semantic Composability
PADS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
PADS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE/SCS 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
Investigating unexpected outcomes through the application of statistical debuggers
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
An integrated approach for the validation of emergence in component-based simulation models
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Interaction metric of emergent behaviors in agent-based simulation
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Formalization of emergence in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSIM conference on Principles of advanced discrete simulation
Post-mortem analysis of emergent behavior in complex simulation models
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSIM conference on Principles of advanced discrete simulation
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Emergent behaviors in simulations require explanation, so that valid behaviors can be separated from design or coding errors. Validation of emergent behavior requires accumulation of insight into the behavior and the conditions under which it arises. Previously, we have introduced an approach, Explanation Exploration (EE), to gather insight into emergent behaviors using semi-automatic model adaptation. We improve our previous work by iteratively applying causal inference procedures to samples gathered from the semi-automatic model adaptation. Iterative application of causal inference procedures reveals the interactions of identified abstractions within the model that cause the emergent behavior. Uncovering these interactions gives the subject matter expert new insight into the emergent behavior and facilitates the validation process.