Simulation as an Aid in Model Building

Abstract

An example drawn from fleet air defense illustrates the use of a very simple device which simulates the physical situation to be analyzed in the task of constructing a mathematical model of the situation. Such a simulator is also helpful in explaining the results of the analysis to the people for whom they are intended and in estimating the errors introduced by various computational approximations. Operations Research , ISSN 0030-364X, was published as Journal of the Operations Research Society of America from 1952 to 1955 under ISSN 0096-3984.