Simulation verification, validation and confidence: A tutorial

Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 63-69

  Robinson, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION VALIDATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0032673760     PISSN: 07406797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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