Evaluating the performance versus accuracy tradeoff for abstract models

Abstract

While the military and commercial communities are increasingly reliant on simulation to reduce cost, the cost of developing simulations for their complex system may be costly in themselves. In order to reduce simulation costs, simulation developers have turned toward using collaborative simulation, reusing existing simulation models, and utilizing model abstraction techniques to reduce simulation development time as well as simulation execution time. This paper focuses on model abstraction techniques that can be applied to reduce simulation execution and development time and the effects those techniques have on simulation accuracy.