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Using workflows to control the experiment execution in modeling and simulation software

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Stefan Rybacki,

Jan Himmelspach,

Adelinde M. UhrmacherAuthors Info & Claims

SIMUTOOLS '12: Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Pages 93 - 102

Published: 19 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

To control the computation of an experiment means at least to deal with the generation of parameter combinations of interest (at best using experiment design solutions) and to execute, in case of stochastic simulations, the required replications using the hardware available.

Although the process to be supported by modeling and simulation (M&S) software is often constrained to loading the model and instantiating it using a given parameter configuration and executing it by taking into account the simulation parameters, needs might arise to adapt and extend the code controlling the execution, i. e., incorporating feedback loops from validation or analysis steps into the execution scheme during runtime, having user interaction or simply adding further steps to the execution scheme such as further data processing. Additional features, like supporting diverse hardware setups, documentation or security, may imply further changes to the code.

A workflow-based execution abstracts from concrete implementations and hard-coded execution patterns, as it provides a declarative description of this process, which means that anyone can set up own experimentation workflows (by using smaller predefined workflows and non-workflow-based components). Herein we present a workflow driven realization of an experimentation layer, which supports the same features as the hard-coded alternative and we discuss the pros, cons, and performance of the workflow-based approach.

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Schützel JPeng DUhrmacher APerrone LBuckley SMiller J(2014)Perspectives on languages for specifying simulation experimentsProceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2693848.2694208(2836-2847)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2693848.2694208

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SIMUTOOLS '12: Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

March 2012

402 pages

ISBN:9781450315104

General Chair:
George Riley
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Program Chairs:
Francesco Quaglia
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
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Jan Himmelspach
University of Rostock, Germany

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Schützel JPeng DUhrmacher APerrone LBuckley SMiller J(2014)Perspectives on languages for specifying simulation experimentsProceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2693848.2694208(2836-2847)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2014
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