TR153: A Trajectory for Validating Computational Emulation Models of Organizations

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Abstract: Validation of complex simulation models is a challenging problem in computational organization theory research. In this paper, we describe a validation strategy suitable for emulation simulation systems, and show how a comprehensive validation consists of a sequence of steps that evaluate different aspects of a computational organizational simulation model. We demonstrate how this strategy can be applied to the evaluation of the Virtual Team Alliance (VTA), an emulation simulation system designed to guide managers charged with organizational change. VTA required a "trajectory" of successive validation experiments, before managers were willing to follow the recommendations of VTA. Ultimately, we believe this validation approach can be applied to a wide range of different simulation systems, and will make identification of the strengths and weaknesses of organizational simulations easier.

Type of resource	text
Date created	November 2003

Subject	CIFE
Subject	Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Computational Organizational Simulation Models
Subject	Contingency Theory
Subject	Information Processing
Subject	Intervention
Subject	Organizational Design
Subject	Validation
Genre	Technical report

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/db848hz3318

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Preferred Citation: Thomsen, Jan and Levitt, Raymond and Kunz, John and . (2003). TR153: A Trajectory for Validating Computational Emulation Models of Organizations. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/db848hz3318

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