Modeling viewpoints for assessing reliability

  • Authors:
  • A. Alan B. Pritsker

  • Affiliations:
  • Pritsker & Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 2413, West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • WSC '88 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

This paper is the third in a series of papers dealing with model evolution and its importance in problem-solving when employing simulation as an analysis tool. In the paper, reliability assessment is used as a vehicle for presenting modeling viewpoints and constructs. As in the previous papers, the assessment of the worth of a model is not made. The paper describes modeling viewpoints and procedures in a reliability assessment context and describes the need for being able to build more detailed models from simpler models. The basic hypothesis of the paper is that model evolution is a way of life for the simulationist.