COMPUTER-ASSISTED SIMULATION ANALYSIS

We propose a framework for understanding the complex activities of Sim ulation Experiment Design and Analysis (SEDA), a framework that provid es a basis for developing SEDA software. This paper presents the frame work and illustrates it with a brief example. The definitions of six S EDA components form the core of the framework. The framework itself in cludes a dynamic model and a static model. The dynamic model is a gene ric description of the sequential nature of SEDA. The static model, in contrast is a very specific description of the SEDA computer system s tructure for our chosen problem domain: comparison of queueing network s in terms of their expected performance. We argue that the proposed S EDA framework is a good one on the basis of its properties and by comp aring it with related frameworks. We close by briefly summarizing our prototype SEDA software, which was used to evaluate our framework.