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Winter Simulation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 25th conference on Winter simulation table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 50 - 57

Year of Publication: 1993

ISBN:0-7803-1381-X

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George B. Kleindorfear	Department of Management Science and Information Systems, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Ram Geneshan	Department of Management Science and Information Systems, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-SMCS : Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
ORSA : Operations Research Society of America
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
IIE : Institute of Industrial Engineers
SCS : Society for Computer Simulation
ASA : American Statistical Association
NIST : National Institue of Standards & Technology
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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	James D. Arthur , Richard E. Nance, Independent verification and validation: a missing link in simulation methodology?, Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation, p.230-236, December 08-11, 1996, Coronado, California, United States
	Robert G. Sargent, Verification and validation of simulation models, Proceedings of the 26th conference on Winter simulation, p.77-87, December 11-14, 1994, Orlando, Florida, United States
	Robert G. Sargent, Verification and validation of simulation models, Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation, p.121-130, December 13-16, 1998, Washington, D.C., United States
	Robert G. Sargent, Validation and verification of simulation models, Proceedings of the 31st conference on Winter simulation: Simulation---a bridge to the future, p.39-48, December 05-08, 1999, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
	Robert G. Sargent, Verifying and validating simulation models, Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation, p.55-64, December 08-11, 1996, Coronado, California, United States
	Robert G. Sargent, Verification, validation, and accreditation: verification, validation, and accreditation of simulation models, Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation, December 10-13, 2000, Orlando, Florida
	Robert G. Sargent, Verification and validation: verification and validation of simulation models, Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation, December 07-10, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana
	Robert G. Sargent, Validation and verification of simulation models, Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation, December 05-08, 2004, Washington, D.C.
	Robert G. Sargent, Verification and validation of simulation models, Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation, December 04-07, 2005, Orlando, Florida
	Robert G. Sargent, Verification and validation of simulation models, Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come, December 09-12, 2007, Washington D.C.
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	Esther E. Klein , Paul J. Herskovitz, Philosophical foundations of computer simulation validation, Simulation and Gaming, v.36 n.3, p.303-329, September 2005

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