ANSS '78 Proceedings of the 11th annual symposium on Simulation
Use of both optimization and simulation models to analyze complex systems
WSC '78 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
Interactive analysis of output from GPSS-based simulations
WSC '78 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
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The application of simulation as a system analysis tool is growing. One reason for this growth is that user-oriented simulation systems are being developed so that end users can interface directly with simulation systems without support from simulation “experts.” Although this is a healthy trend, end users of simulations tend to accept the results of their simulations without regard to confidence levels, stability conditions, or steady state attainment. It is the authors' experience that users tend to terminate simulations before the system has reached steady state in order to conserve computer time. This paper describes a system for automatic run time control of a discrete event simulation. A variety of run time control techniques were identified. Autocorrelation was selected on the bases of simplicity and efficiency and applied to a “user-oriented” simulation system, “Data System Dynamic Simulator (DSDS).” A brief description of DSDS is provided along with results of a sample simulation employing automatic run time control of a DSDS implemented simulation.