A number of international conferences and workshops have been held in the last five years on the theme of simulation output and its analysis. There will also be opportunity for networking with practitioners and academics. The presentation will discuss the use of neural networks in order to develop simulation meta-models i.e. models of simulation models. Examples will be used in order to show the visualisation of results. The use of this type of meta-model will also be discussed for possible optimisation.
Basic simulation is non-optimising.
However, the study of a complex system often has as its goal the improvement or optimisation of its performance. This talk will survey current issues and recent progress in theoretical optimisation methods as well as issues and recent progress in the practical implementation of methods. Most simulation software suppliers provide optimising tools with their software. There is also a range of software tools for more general output analysis. A review of some of these software tools will be given.