The simulation reproducibility crisis. Can reporting guidelines help?
The simulation reproducibility crisis. Can reporting guidelines help?
Modern computational science is gripped by a reproducibility crisis. This means that the benefits of computational research are hard if not impossible to realise. The field of computer simulation is not immune to this crisis. The complexity of simulation models leads to difficulties in reporting the internal logic and data to an extent where it is often difficult to reproduce the model and its results. We describe the reproducibility crisis and introduce the Strengthening The Reporting of Empirical Simulation Studies (STRESS) guidelines; a standardised checklist approach to improve the reporting of discrete-event simulation, system dynamics and agent-based simulation models. We argue that STRESS provides a partial solution to the reproducibility crisis in computer simulation.
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Operational Research Society
Monks, T.
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Monks, T., Currie, C., Onggo, B.S., Kunc, M., Robinson, S. and Taylor, S.J.E.
(2017)
The simulation reproducibility crisis. Can reporting guidelines help?
Robertson, D., Fakhimi, M., Anagnostou, A. and Meskarian, R.
(eds.)
In Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2018.
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Abstract
Modern computational science is gripped by a reproducibility crisis. This means that the benefits of computational research are hard if not impossible to realise. The field of computer simulation is not immune to this crisis. The complexity of simulation models leads to difficulties in reporting the internal logic and data to an extent where it is often difficult to reproduce the model and its results. We describe the reproducibility crisis and introduce the Strengthening The Reporting of Empirical Simulation Studies (STRESS) guidelines; a standardised checklist approach to improve the reporting of discrete-event simulation, system dynamics and agent-based simulation models. We argue that STRESS provides a partial solution to the reproducibility crisis in computer simulation.
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