Adaptive Distributed Metamodeling

Abstract. Simulating and optimizing complex physical systems is known to be a task of considerable time and computational complexity. As a result, metamodeling techniques for the efficient exploration of the design space have become standard practice since they reduce the number of simulations needed. However, conventionally such metamodels are constructed sequentially in a one-shot manner, without exploiting inherent parallelism. To tackle this inefficient use of resources we present an adaptive framework where modeler and simulator interact through a distributed environment, thus decreasing model generation and simulation turnaround time. This paper provides evidence that such a distributed approach for adaptive sampling and modeling is worthwhile investigating. Research in this new field can lead to even more innovative automated modeling tools for complex simulation systems.