CRITIQUE OF: "VERIFICATION OF COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELS"

The article presents a critique of the article "Verification of Computer Simulation Models," by Thomas H. Naylor and J. M. Finger. The problems of building complex simulation models and getting them to operate on computers has consumed so much time and energy that the validation problem has been neglected. The article applauds Naylor and Finger for drawing on the existing literature on scientific methodology to construct models that have the ability to withstand meaningful validation procedures. Details related to the methodology of validation are discussed.