Article ID: | iaor1993274 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 333 |
End Page Number: | 341 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1992 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Hurrion R.D., Taylor S. |
Keywords: | simulation, neural networks, decision theory |
The use of a neural network to represent the results of a simulation model is described. The neural network is implemented as an interaction within a visual interactive simulation model. All results obtained from the simulation are offered to the neural network. After a suitable period of training the quality of results obtained from the network matches those obtained by running the original simulation model. An example which embeds a neural network as an interaction within a visual interactive simulation model is described. The example shows how the combined system may enhance the decision making quality of a visual interactive simulation model.