VERIFICATION METHODOLOGY FOR DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION MODELS OF PERSONNEL IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) uses a variety of tools to model, forecast and investigate workforce behavior; one such tool is a custom Discrete Event Simulation (DES) framework designed to address military Human Resources (HR) and personnel questions called the Force Flow Model (FFM). In this work we propose a methodology to verify workforce simulations and we discuss its use for verification of the FFM. We demonstrate precise agreement with an analytic model when the FFM parameters are matched to exactly solvable analytic scenarios. The methodology is simple to understand and apply, is generally applicable to workforce simulations, and helps to meet the need to verify simulations by providing known analytic results to benchmark against.