SOME APPROACHES TO SIMULATION, MODELING, AND GAMING AT SDC

Abstract

Results of the Washington Division Seminars held 19-21 July at Falls Church, Virginia are presented. The general feeling of the participants was that modeling and simulation should not be considered as separate disciplines because they rely so heavily on contributions not only from the sciences but from the liberal arts. Modeling and simulation are useful tools for scientific inquiry, but should be used judiciously and their predictive qualities applied with knowledgeable caution. Many times a problem can be solved without resort to a computerized simulation. It was suggested that a policy be established to encourage the customer to buy a feasibility study prior to deciding to have such a simulation. The problem may be ill-defined and to rush blindly into a computer simulation may well prove unfortunate.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 19, 1962
Accession Number
AD0276376

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Redgrave

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Blast
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Processing Equipment
  • Simulators
  • Training Devices
  • United States

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Educational Psychology
  • Systems Analysis and Design