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Debugging simulation models

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WSC '05: Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation

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Published: 04 December 2005 Publication History

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While much has been written about model validation and verification, the actual process of correcting, or debugging, a model is presented as an afterthought. This paper will describe different types of bugs and will present techniques, drawn from both the simulation modeling and application programming worlds, for determining the cause of an error in the model.

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Gore RReynolds Jr. PKamensky DDiallo SPadilla J(2015)Statistical Debugging for SimulationsACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation10.1145/269972225:3(1-26)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2699722
Erb BKargl FBarros FPerumalla KEwald R(2014)Combining discrete event simulations and event sourcingProceedings of the 7th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254624(51-55)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2014
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Clark RKrahl D(2011)Roadmap to successProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2431518.2431691(1470-1480)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2011
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Gore RReynolds Jr. PKamensky DDiallo SPadilla J(2015)Statistical Debugging for SimulationsACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation10.1145/269972225:3(1-26)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2015
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