Engineering Simulations As Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language: With Kieran Alden, Paul S. Andrews, James L. Bown, Alastair Droop, Richard B. ... T. Sampson, Jon Timmis, Alan F.T. Winfield

This book describes CoSMoS (Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation), a pattern-based approach to engineering trustworthy simulations that are both scientifically useful to the researcher and scientifically credible to third parties. This approach emphasises three key aspects to this development of a simulation as a scientific instrument: the use of explicit models to capture the scientific domain, the engineered simulation platform, and the experimental results of running simulations; the use of arguments to provide evidence that the scientific instrument is fit for purpose; and the close co-working of domain scientists and simulation software engineers. In Part I the authors provide a managerial overview: the rationale for and benefits of using the CoSMoS approach, and a small worked example to demonstrate it in action. Part II is a catalogue of the core patterns. Part III lists more specific ?helper? patterns, showing possible routes to a simulation. Finally Part IV documents CellBranch, a substantial case study developed using the CoSMoS approach.

• | Author: Susan Stepney, Fiona A.C. Polack
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Dec 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 367 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3030132021
• | ISBN-13: 9783030132026