In: Proc. High Performance Computing (HPC'2000); 2000 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, 16-20 April 2000, Washington, DC, pages 357-364. 2000.
Abstract: An approach called exploratory simulation is presented that facilitates the automatic exploration through the configuration and design alternatives of a system. The approach builds upon a few extensions to an otherwise conventional high-level Petri net formalism. As an example, a generic and fully parametric simulation environment is created with this modeling language and subsequently used to automatically evaluate the performance of a single system.
Keywords: Petri nets, dynamic structures, exploratory simulation, performance evaluation.