Plebes, dogs, and robots: simulating without data

  • Authors:
  • Dean S. Hartley, III

  • Affiliations:
  • Hartley Consulting, Oak Ridge, TN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

As a general rule, simulation requires detailed data to properly represent a problem. Occasionally, a problem may be successfully solved using only reasonable approximations to the data. This paper describes such a situation. The Army's health services conceived the Personal Information Carrier (PIC) as a replacement for the "dog tag." The concept was to support portable personal health records. The problem was to determine the contents of the records to be stored in the PIC.