SIMULATION EXPERIMENTATION AND CONTEXT
Published Date: February 1, 1981
This paper discusses the trend among simulation designers toward the construction of models of the 'middle range' that are designed in an attempt to resolve the tension between the 'contextual particularity' of events and the apparent order and organization of events in the form of general laws and theory. This paper underscores this preference both in comparison to more abstract experiments designed to uncover general laws and 'real world' experiments designed to describe the uniqueness of particular events.
