Title
Green Simulation: Reusing the Output of Repeated Experiments.
Abstract
We introduce a new paradigm in simulation experiment design and analysis, called “green simulation,” for the setting in which experiments are performed repeatedly with the same simulation model. Green simulation means reusing outputs from previous experiments to answer the question currently being asked of the simulation model. As one method for green simulation, we propose estimators that reuse outputs from previous experiments by weighting them with likelihood ratios, when parameters of distributions in the simulation model differ across experiments. We analyze convergence of these estimators as more experiments are repeated, while a stochastic process changes the parameters used in each experiment. As another method for green simulation, we propose an estimator based on stochastic kriging. We find that green simulation can reduce mean squared error by more than an order of magnitude in examples involving catastrophe bond pricing and credit risk evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3129130
ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Likelihood ratio method, multiple importance sampling, score function method, simulation metamodeling
Kriging,Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,Weighting,Reuse,Computer science,Stochastic process,Mean squared error,Statistics,Estimator,Design of experiments
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
4
1049-3301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.66
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingbin Feng120.66
Jeremy Staum27613.25