On the development and management of computerized models

The U.S. Government has recently identified the need for a body of guidlines and standards to improve the development and management of Federal computerized models. This need has most recently been advocated by a General Accounting Office Report to the Congress of August 1976. This paper is composed of two parts: the first describes the program undertaken by the Government to develop such standards; the second describes a particular research project conducted under the program which proposes to develop improved methodology for simulation model development.