Modeling viewpoints for assessing reliability
A. Alan B. Pritsker · 1988
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.