Assistance and Automation of Simulation

Abstract

In the previous chapter, simulation was introduced as an approach where computer models of real-world systems are applied to facilitate analyzing, planning, and optimizing of these system. This thesis aims at integrating research hypotheses into the process of simulation studies, to assist the identification, design, execution, and evaluation of important experiments to prove or disprove such hypotheses. Especially in models with a large number of inputs, the resulting degrees of freedom require an extensive number of similar experiments.