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Building Good Models is Not Enough

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  • Richard Richels

    (Electric Power Research Institute, 3412 Hillview Avenue, P.O. Box 10412, Palo Alto, California 94303)

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The failure of models to live up to the expectations and demands of the user community has led to increasing skepticism about the usefulness of policy modeling. This paper examines reasons for this growing dissatisfaction and considers ways to deal with it.

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  • Richard Richels, 1981. "Building Good Models is Not Enough," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 48-54, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:11:y:1981:i:4:p:48-54
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.11.4.48
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    1. Becker, Kai Helge, 2016. "An outlook on behavioural OR – Three tasks, three pitfalls, one definition," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 249(3), pages 806-815.
    2. Robinson, Stewart, 2002. "General concepts of quality for discrete-event simulation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 138(1), pages 103-117, April.
    3. Arnold Reisman & Muhittin Oral, 2005. "Soft Systems Methodology: A Context Within a 50-Year Retrospective of OR/MS," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 35(2), pages 164-178, April.
    4. Hämäläinen, Raimo P. & Luoma, Jukka & Saarinen, Esa, 2013. "On the importance of behavioral operational research: The case of understanding and communicating about dynamic systems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 228(3), pages 623-634.
    5. Gogi, Anastasia & Tako, Antuela A. & Robinson, Stewart, 2016. "An experimental investigation into the role of simulation models in generating insights," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 249(3), pages 931-944.

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