Simulation in the big data era——review of new ideas and new theories in the 81st Academic Salon of China Association for Science and Technology

In September 2013, the Chinese Association for System Simulation undertook the 81st New Ideas and New Theories Academic Salon of China Association for Science and Technology. The theme is "challenges and thinking of modeling and simulation in the era of big data", which focused on 3 topics, including "Is big data really the fourth paradigm", "How the big data challenge simulation" and "What opportunities the big data bring to simulation". This paper introduces the main opinions of the experts and shares the achievements of this salon.