‘Some tactical problems in digital simulation’ for the next 10 years

Abstract

In his influential 1963 paper ‘Some Tactical Problems in Digital Simulation’, Conway identified important issues that became the pillars of research in simulation analysis methodology. Naturally these ‘problems’ were a product of the applications of interest at the time, as well as the state of simulation and computing, much of which has changed dramatically. In light of those changes, we attempt to identify the tactical problems that might occupy simulation researchers for the next 10 years.

Keywords:

• stochastic simulation
• analysis methodology
• parallel simulation
• simulation analytics
• simulation optimization
• risk analysis

Acknowledgements

While the author bears sole responsibility for the opinions expressed in this article, he received insight and feedback from discussions with Russell Barton, Shane Henderson, Jeff Hong, Emily Lada, Yujing Lin, Dennis Pegden, Justice Pettigrew, Eunhye Song, Jeremy Staum and Dave Sturrock. This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation of the United States under Grant Number CMMI-1537060. Portions of Section 4 were based on the grant proposal.