Progress toward a proposed simulation game base for curricula in decision sciences

摘要

Use of a special purpose business simulation game as a laboratory vehicle throughout a decision science curriculum is proposed as a pedagogically useful device for achieving curricular objectives. Development of such a game and its requisite characteristics are described. The multi-level nature of the game dictates that major subsystems must exist at different levels in order to incorporate dissimilar decision situations confronting players in various courses. Modular design is the means by which certain multi-level features are incorporated and permits one to "tailor-make" the game for a particular application. Economies, analogous to overlays in FORTRAN, are achieved since only those program segments or subsystems representing degrees of decision complexity actually present must be stored and executed in core.