10.18453/rosdok_id00001970 Helms, Tobias Tobias Helms http://d-nb.info/gnd/1142560031 Universität Rostock 2017 000 Generalities, Science 2017 en http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00001970 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-diss2017-0134-6 Component-based simulation software can provide many opportunities to compose and configure simulators, resulting in an algorithm selection problem for the user of this software. This thesis aims to automate the selection and adaptation of simulators at runtime in an application-independent manner. Further, it explores the potential of tailored and approximate simulators - in this thesis concretely developed for the modeling language ML-Rules - supporting the effectiveness of the adaptation scheme.