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Making sure you tackle the right problem: linking hard and soft methods in simulation practice

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Michael PiddAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

Pages 195 - 204

Published: 09 December 2007 Publication History

Abstract

As well as knowledge of computing, statistics and modelling, a successful simulation analyst needs to develop ways to understand the important features of an application domain. The last two decades have seen the increasing use of 'soft' approaches to help analysts structure the problems they are asked to tackle. The idea is to help ensure that the right problem is tackled. The complementary use of these problem structuring approaches with the technical side of computer simulation offers the prospect of better simulation practice. This advanced tutorial introduces some of these structuring approaches and discusses how they can be used in simulation projects, paying attention to the different ways in which simulation models are used.

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WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

December 2007

2659 pages

ISBN:1424413060

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Jeff Tew

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IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
INFORMS-SIM: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: Simulation Society
ASA: American Statistical Association
IEEE/SMC: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
(SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2429759.2430283
Pidd MRose OUhrmacher A(2012)Mixing other methods with simulation is no big dealProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2429759.2429847(1-7)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2429759.2429847
Eldabi TJun GClarkson JConnell CKlein JY�cesan E(2010)Model driven healthcareProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2433508.2433788(2271-2282)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2010
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Tako AKotiadis KVasilakis CY�cesan E(2010)A participative modelling framework for developing conceptual models in healthcare simulation studiesProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2433508.2433566(500-512)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2010
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