“…Therefore, the remainder of this article is splitted into three parts: The first, dealing with an introduction to DDEs and discussing special properties of DDEs, the second, presenting requirements for the numerical simulation of DDEs, and the third, where difficulties within parameter estimation for DDEs are discussed. In the Sections 2 and 4 the most important parts of [5,8], [12,13] and [1,2] are cited.…”