A Query-Driven Approach to Simulations
32 Pages Posted: 23 Oct 2008
Date Written: 1993
Abstract
This paper describes a Query-Driven Simulation (QDS) approach to asking questions aboutoutcomes of business processes. In this approach a user issues a query about outcomes of simulationruns and, based on the query asked, appropriate simulations are launched and the answer tothe query is determined from the outcomes of these simulations. It is argued that Query-DrivenSimulations provide a more declarative, flexible, and interactive approach to asking questionsabout simulation outcomes than the traditional approaches of letting the end-users run simulationsand gather statistics about simulation outcomes. The paper also presents a new simulationsystem development lifecycle based on the QDS approach.
Keywords: Query-Driven Simulations, Discrete-Event Simulations, Temporal Databases, Query Languages
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