Web applications help their users use the Web to achieve various purposes. In doing so, each page view is the culmination of a process that is in essence a sequence of method invocations being undertaken by the application's various components; thus, we could say that web applications, in runtime, are powered by sequences of discrete events, and we could say that these sequences could be simulated.
However, would this be a sufficient way to do this, and if not, what other ways could this be done?
Simulation in general, and discrete event simulation DES in particular, is not done for the sake of simulation itself. Yes, the sequence of events can be simulated. However, the following steps in DES model design should always be followed:
-Problem description
-Questions to be answered by the model
- Performance criteria (usually defined by the stakeholders)
- Decision variables and their constraints
- Design scenarios to be analyzed using the validated and verified model
-Conclusions and recommendations to stakeholders and decision-makers
DES has become indispensable and demonstrated its power and efficiency for years in addressing such problems as capacity, resource allocation, workflow and bottleneck forming, playing various scenarios of the process performance.
Because of this, to answer your question " would this be a sufficient way..or not" you have to first address the above basic steps.
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