Self-learning simulation environments

A system comprising:

• a processing system configured to:
• receive performance data of a physical system;
• determine whether an anomalous event has occurred in the physical system based on the performance data;
• in response to determining that the anomalous event has occurred in the physical system, capture data of the physical system and data of an environment of the physical system;
• generate a virtual representation of the physical system and the environment based on the captured data of the physical system and the captured data of the environment;
• repeatedly simulate performance data of the virtual representation by selectively varying one or more parameters of the captured data of at least one of the physical system and the environment;
• determine which parameters of the one or more parameters are likely a root cause of the anomalous event based on the repeatedly simulated performance data of the virtual representation;
• and
• determine particular values of the parameters that are likely the root cause of the anomalous event to use as a trigger for a proactive process to address the anomalous event.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to receive performance data of a physical system;
• computer readable program code configured to determine whether an anomalous event has occurred in the physical system based on the performance data;
• computer readable program code configured to, in response to determining that the anomalous event has occurred in the physical system, capture data of the physical system and data of an environment of the physical system;
• computer readable program code configured to generate a virtual representation of the physical system and the environment based on the captured data of the physical system and the captured data of the environment;
• computer readable program code configured to repeatedly simulate performance data of the virtual representation by selectively varying one or more parameters of the captured data of at least one of the physical system and the environment;
• computer readable program code configured to determine which parameters of the one or more parameters are likely a root cause of the anomalous event based on the repeatedly simulated performance data of the virtual representation;
• and
• computer readable program code configured to determine particular values of the parameters that are likely the root cause of the anomalous event to use as a trigger for a proactive process to address the anomalous event.