Monitoring and checking of discrete event simulations

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Discrete event simulation is a widely used technique for decision support. The results of the simulation must be reliable for critical decision making problems. Therefore, much research has concentrated on the verification and validation of simulations. In this thesis, we apply a well-known dynamic verification technique, assertion checking method, as a validation technique. Our aim is to validate the particular runs of the simulation model, rather than the model itself. As a case study, the operations of a manufacturing cell have been simulated. The cell, which is METUCIM Laboratory at the Mechanical Engineering Department of METU, has a robot and a conveyor to carry the materials, and two machines to manufacture the items, and a quality control to measure the correctness of the manufactured items. This simulation is monitored and checked by using the Monitoring and Checking (MaC) tool, a prototype developed at the University of Pennsylvania. The separation of low-level implementation details (pertaining to the code) from the high-level requirement specifications (pertaining to the simuland) helps keep monitoring and checking the simulations at an abstract level.
Computer simulation, Mathematical models
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1053305/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13681
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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B. Ulu, “Monitoring and checking of discrete event simulations,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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