TY - JOUR T1 - Exploring the Choice of Experimental Design Used to Create the Training Set for a Reverse Neural Network Simulation Metamodel in System Design AU - , Mahdi Nasereddin AU - , Mansooreh Mollaghasemi JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 4 IS - 11 SP - 1102 EP - 1109 PY - 2005 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2005.1102.1109 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2005.1102.1109 KW - Discrete system simulation KW -decision support KW -neural networks KW -experimental design KW -orthogonal design KW -D-optimal AB - In this study the use of reverse simulation metamodels as a decision support tool is explored. In reverse simulation metamodeling the outputs of the simulation model (performance measures) are used as the inputs to the metamodel and the metamodel approximates the inputs of the simulation (controllable factors). The focus of this study is the choice of the experimental design (D-optimal or orthogonal arrays) used to generate the data set used to create the reverse simulation metamodel was investigated using 36 simulation scenarios with different degrees of complexity. It was found that neural network metamodels trained using an orthogonal training set performed better than those trained using a D-optimal training set. ER -