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Introduction. Validation and verification as parts of the simulation process. Guidelines for determining the level of model details. Verification techniques.
Accreditation: is the official certification that states that a simulation model is acceptable for some purpose. For accreditation the simulation must be:
Valid, verified, and credible. High quality of the used data. Limitations and problems must be defined.
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1. Define the specific issues to be investigated and the performance measures that will be used for evaluation. e.g. think of WLAN, Ethernet LAN, M/M/1 models 2. The entity moving through the simulation model need not be the entity moving in the actual system.
It is not necessary to model all the details of the real system in simulation. Determine the needed details based on the following directions:
Example: it might be better to model a box of parts in a manufacturing model as an entity rather than modeling each part as an entity. Example: model Ethernet packet rather than bit by bit in the packet
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4. Do not include excessive amount of model detail. Start by a moderate detail and add more details as needed.
e.g. for M/M/1 model start with a simple single server+queue+arrivals
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the program by other persons as one may not able to criticize himself.
several settings of the input parameters. Try it first for known system performance to conduct some comparisons and so to check the obtained results.
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sample variance for each simulation input probability and compare with the desired known mean and variance.
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2. Data are not of the appropriate type or format. 3. Data may contain measurements, recording or rounding errors. 4. Data may be biased because of self interest. 5. Data may have inconsistent units. Km, miles, etc.
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Technique 1: Collect high quality information and data on the system III
C. Existing Theory
-e.g. bank system = poisson Process.
introduced from similar simulation studies. (if you have done it before)
E. Use the experience and intuition of the modelers to hypothesize how certain
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Technique 3: Maintain an assumptions of document and perform a structural walk-through. Record all assumptions that have been taken in the simulation model including
Project goals. Detailed description of each subsystem. What simplifying assumptions were made and why. Summary of data such as mean, histogram, etc. Sources of important and controversial information.
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Technique 6: Animation
Remember animation is useful for both technical and non-technical people!!!
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Additional Notes
The lecture covers the following sections from the textbook:
Chapter 5:
Sections 5.1 5.4
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