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This requires that the design question be posed in terms that can be addressed by modelling. 1 gives some examples of how design questions may be translated to specific modelling objectives. 3 Planning the modelling study Once the design team’s objectives have been decided, it is important that a clear modelling procedure be developed before the work begins. This is necessary for quality assurance purposes, to allow other design team members to check on the modelling and to facilitate a consistent approach for similar problems.
Some software vendors provide help and advice to their users. There may be a separate charge or ‘hot line’ support can be included within an annual licence fee. Commercial users may pay a higher licence fee than research groups and the extent and speed of the responses to questions may reflect these different charges. It may be useful to ask if: — help and advice is provided and at what cost — the support is by telephone, fax or e-mail. It is important to receive updates to the software and, most importantly, ‘bug fixes’.
In small companies, the simulation team manager may assume this role. For quality assurance to be effective, procedures should be established in collaboration with the program users. All group members must see the procedures as being helpful. Simulation problems vary in their timescales, risks, input data needs and output formats. The quality assurance procedures must, therefore, be flexible so that creativity is not stifled. The procedures can be most valuable if they focus on those aspects of simulation work that vary little between projects.