What Makes a Simulation Useful Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title What Makes a Simulation Useful

Creator

  • Author: Eubank, S.G.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: US Department of Energy (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: New Mexico
    Additional Info: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1999-10-12

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Modern computers make possible a new blending of systems, man, and cybernetics in the detailed simulation of large sociotechnical systems. Several such simulations are currently under development at Los Alamos National Laboratory and elsewhere. When deployed, they will affect the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people and the allocation of billions of dollars. Whether they are deployed depends entirely on their perceived usefulness, which in turn depends on answers to the following: What kinds of questions does the simulation address and what kinds of solutions does it provide? How can the solutions be validated? Is simulation more cost-effective than other methods? Answers to these questions lead us to define a useful simulation as one which efficiently provides correct, robust estimates required by decision-making needs, together with well understood variability for the outcomes in hypothetical situations. This paper examines the implications of this criterion for the design o f TRANSIMS, a regional transportation network simulation, and by extension, for simulations of other sociotechnical systems.
  • Physical Description: Medium: P; Size: vp.

Subject

  • Keyword: Decision Making
  • STI Subject Categories: 99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science
  • Keyword: Computerized Simulation
  • Keyword: Lanl
  • Keyword: Cybernetics
  • Keyword: Man
  • Keyword: Human Populations

Source

  • Conference: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 1999 Conference, Tokyo (JP), 10/12/1999--10/15/1999

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: LA-UR-99-3049
  • Grant Number: W-7405-ENG-36
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 758965
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc709522

Note

  • Display Note: OSTI as DE00758965
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