Abstract:

CoSMoS is a defined approach for designing, building, and arguing fit for purpose, a scientifically rigorous simulation of a complex real world system. The ODD (Overview, Design concepts, Details) protocol is a standardised way of describing simulation models, defined to support reproducibility. This paper demonstrates that use of the CoSMoS approach to build a simulation supports the presentation of the simulation results using the ODD protocol. It does so by presenting a mapping from the various ODD components, to where the required information for those components is located in a CoSMoS project's documentation. All the information is present, but is distributed through the project documentation. Moreover, a project developed using the CoSMoS approach documents additional information, which is necessary not merely for reproducibility, but for understanding of and confidence in the simulations.

@inproceedings(SS-CoSMoS13-odd,
  author = "Susan Stepney",
  title = "{CoSMoS} simulation experiment reproducibility and the {ODD} protocol",
  pages = "93-107",
  crossref = "CoSMoS13"
)

@proceedings(CoSMoS13,
  editor = "Susan Stepney and Paul S. Andrews",
  title = "Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation,
           Milan, Italy, July 2013",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation,
           Milan, Italy, July 2013",
  publisher = "Luniver Press",
  year = 2013
)