SGER: Model Validation for Engineering Design Decisions

这个探索性研究的小额赠款(SGER)奖是为了探索验证，目的是建立模型有效性和验证方法的正式表征。数学模型在工程设计中是必不可少的。人们担心，人们对模型有效性和模型验证知之甚少。无论是工程设计还是决策科学文献，都没有提供解决模型有效性或有效性的基本理论。缺乏可访问的理论应该引起工程师的相当大的关注，他们必须在决策功能中依赖复杂的模型。特别是，这个项目试图在验证和来自遍历理论的众所周知的结果之间建立联系。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) award is to explore validation with the objective of establishing a formal characterization of model validity and validation methodology. Mathematical models are essential to engineering design. There is a concern that model validity and model validation are poorly understood. Neither the engineering design or the decision science literature offer a basic theory addressing model validity or validation. The absence of an accessible theory should be of considerable concern to engineers who must rely on sophisticated models in the decision making function.In particular, this project seeks to establish a connection between validation and well-known results from ergodic theory.