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Active Nonlinear Tests (ANTs) of Complex Simulation Models

Miller, John H. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 6, pp. 820-830

Simulation models are becoming increasingly common in the analysis of critical scientific, policy, and management issues. Such models provide a way to analyze complex systems characterized by both large parameter spaces and nonlinear interactions. Unfortunately, these same characteristics make...

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Testing the Validity of a Queueing Model of Police Patrol

Green, Linda; Kolesar, Peter - In: Management Science 35 (1989) 2, pp. 127-148

in patrol policy in New York. We define validation as a series of hierarchical procedures ranging from tests of …

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Validation in Simulation: Various Positions in the Philosophy of Science

Kleindorfer, George B.; O'Neill, Liam; Ganeshan, Ram - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 8, pp. 1087-1099

approaches to validation with a diminished burden of methodological anxiety. Reciprocally this perspective does not let the … modeler off of the hook but rather converts the validation problem into an ethical problem in which the practitioner must …

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