László Muka, Gábor Lencse
Developing a meta-methodology for efficient simulation of infocommunication systems and related processes
The efficiency of simulation projects aimed at supporting the design of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related Business Process (BP) systems in an organisation is influenced by some key factors. The goal of the development of our simulation meta-methodology (MM) is to support the use of the most efficient method in any phase of the simulation process. In this paper we indentify the factors influencing the simulation problem contexts and making them dynamic, then we formulate the requirements on the MM determined by the dynamic simulation problem contexts taking into account the issue of efficiency and also that the simulation method itself is a hard-system method. On this basis we define the methodology set of MM that is a set of hard- and soft-system methods appropriate for different simulation problem contexts. We examine the important features of the MM methodology components, we describe the general features of the simulation methodology (SM) in detail, we propose and also define further requirements on SM determining extra features. We introduce the cycles and the process of MM including alternating way of work and the methodology chains which make MM suitable for dynamic simulation problem contexts.