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Building simulation models and running (executing) simulations are activities that call upon a wide variety of skills and considerations which, for present purposes, we might divide into two broad categories: the “art” and the “science” of simulation. In the latter camp we include the more theoretically based and quantitative aspects which have formed the bulk of the preceding chapters. On the other hand, there is a set of considerations only partially or perhaps not at all related to theoretical or quantifiable matters, or difficult to describe in such terms, that are nevertheless fundamental in building simulations and in obtaining useful results. This set we might regard as the “art” of simulation. These latter considerations and ways of dealing with them essentially form the methodology of simulation. The dividing line between “art” and “science” is somewhat subjective, but is not critical, in any case. In this chapter we discuss several issues that we classify as methodological.
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Jeruchim, M.C., Balaban, P., Shanmugan, K.S. (1992). Simulation and Modeling Methodology. In: Simulation of Communication Systems. Applications of Communications Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3298-9_6
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