| Abstract: | Simulation techniques are widely used for analyzing the policy decisions of managers. This paper presents a “higher-level” use of simulation to analyze the modeling decisions of analysts, which models are, in turn, useful for policy analysis. Methodological systems simulation (MSS) is described in terms of a systems performance prediction problem. The MSS program is outlined and the two major uses of MSS-evaluation of alternative models and simulation of the analyst–are described in terms of the results of simulation runs using the systems performance prediction context. |
