The Design of Dynamic Exploration Environments for Computational Steering Simulations
Robert G. Belleman, Peter M. A. Sloot · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2000
Interactive simulation environments are systems that combine simulation, data presentation and interaction capabilities that together allow users to explore the results of computer simulation processes and in- uence the course of these simulations at run-time. The goal of these interactive environments is to shorten experimental cycles, decrease the cost of system resources and enhance the researcher's abilities for the exploration of data sets or problem spaces. The conceptual idea of allowing users to interactively steer a computation while it is running is not new and examples of applications that benet from it are abundant. However, very often these applications provide ad hoc solutions that are very specic to the problem at hand. This paper investigates the issues that are involved with building an interactive computational steering environment in an attempt to improve the synergy between computational simulation and interactive exploration through a generalised a...