Validating high level simulation results against experimental data and low level simulation
David Griffin, James Harbin, Alan Burns, Iain Bate, Robert Ian Davis, Leandro Soares Indrusiak · 2019
Simulation can be considered a necessary evil in the validation of systems, especially when the system under consideration is being prototyped and therefore does not presently exist. This is compounded by the use of high level simulators; on the one hand, high level simulation is efficient, in that it abstracts away many details of the system which are deemed to be not important. This allows for a simpler and faster running simulator, which allows the user to obtain results faster and/or perform more experiments. On the other hand, some of the details abstracted away might turn out to be important, introducing inaccuracies.