Automation of simulation model generation from system specifications

  • Authors:
  • Richard J. Mayer;Robert E. Young

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WSC '84 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Major advances in simulation techniques have in the past resulted from refinement of our understanding of the modeling process itself. The encapsulation of frequently used functions into standard packages gave rise to the original simulation languages. The recognition of frequently used concepts gave rise to current model-based simulation systems. The separation of the model frame from the experimental frame is just beginning to see implementation in commercially available decision support systems. We believe the next major advance will come from a better understanding of the relationship between the representation (or description) of the system itself and the models/experiments which are performed to satisfy a particular goal. We are currently working towards a modeling paradigm in which a system specification frame and a goal specification frame are formally recognized as distinct from the simulation modeling, experimental, and implementation frames.