Model Behavior and Sensitivity Results

Abstract

The workstation component supply models presented in Chapter 3 are discrete event simulation models. Each model was designed and tuned to capture certain component trends over time. This chapter illustrates the dynamic behavior of the component supply models. This is not a validation of the models. A true validation, in a scientific sense, is only possible by using the models to test hypotheses. In other words, a model prediction needs to be made (a hypothesis formed), and if the prediction turns out to be true, the model passes the validation test.