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Opportunities for Software Support to the Simulation Process

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Most of the development effort in simulation software (as a particular case of modelling tools) has been concentrated on support to model creation. With users of modelling tools increasingly non-specialists, greater support is required to the application of models, in particular in experimentation, or an increased risk of error is being tolerated.

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  1. Business School, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 SBB, UK

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  1. CIMOSA Association, Stockholmer Str. 7, D-71034, Böblingen, Germany

    Kurt Kosanke

  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 220, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

    James G. Nell

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Hollocks, B.W. (1997). Opportunities for Software Support to the Simulation Process. In: Kosanke, K., Nell, J.G. (eds) Enterprise Engineering and Integration. Research Reports Esprit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60889-6_62

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