CoSMoS simulation experiment reproducibility and the ODD protocol

CoSMoS is a defined approach for designing, building, and arguing fit for purpose, a scientifically rigorous simulation of a complex real world system. The ODD (Overview, Design concepts, Details) protocol is a standardised way of describing simulation models, defined to support reproducibility. This paper demonstrates that use of the CoSMoS approach to build a simulation supports the presentation of the simulation results using the ODD protocol. It does so by presenting a mapping from the various ODD components, to where the required information for those components is located in a CoSMoS project’s documentation. All the information is present, but is distributed through the project documentation. Moreover, a project developed using the CoSMoS approach documents additional information, which is necessary not merely for reproducibility, but for understanding of and confidence in the simulations.