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Unit 4: Discrete System Simulation (I)

9. Business games 10. Discrete event simulation Notes

11. validating 12. diagnose
13. performance 14. bottle-necks
15. Visual Interactive (VIM)

4.7 Further Readings

Books Balci, O.,(1994), Validation, verification, and testing techniques throughout the
life cycle of a simulation study, Annals of Operations Research, 53: 121–173.
Balci, O., (2001), A methodology for certification of and simulation applications,
ACM Transactions on and Computer Simulation, 11: 352–377.
Birta, L.G. and Ozmizrak, N.F., (1996), A knowledge-based approach for the
validation of simulation models: The foundation, ACM Transactions on and
Computer Simulation, 6: 67–98.
Boehm, B.W., (1979), Software engineering: R&D trends and defense needs, in: P.
Wegner (Ed.), Research Directions in Software Technology, MIT Press, and
Cambridge, MA.
Cellier, F.E., (1986), Combined discrete/continuous system simulation –
application, techniques and tools, in Proceedings of the 1986 Winter Simulation
Conference.

Department of Defense (DoD) Recommended Practices Guide (RPG) for and
Simulation VV&A, Millennium Edition (available at http://vva.dmso.mil).
General Accounting Office, (1976), Report to the Congress: Ways to improve
management of federally funded computerized models, report LCD-75-111, U.S.
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.

General Accounting Office, (1979), Guidelines for model evaluation, report PAD-
79-17, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.
General Accounting Office, (1987), DOD simulations: Improved assessment
procedures would increase the credibility of results, report GAO/PEMD-88-3,
U.S. General Accounting Office, and Washington, DC.

Ören, T.I., (1981), Concepts and criteria to access acceptability of simulation studies,
Communications of the ACM, 24: 180–189.

Online links http://oxford-mphil.com/images/f/fc/Simulation-econometrics.pdf
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/analog_elab_and_tools/f/234/t/
74630.aspx

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