Modeling and Simulation-Based Systems Engineering Handbook

Daniele Gianni, Andrea D'Ambrogio, Andreas Tolk, Daniele Gianni, Andrea D'Ambrogio, Andreas Tolk

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781466571457
• eBook ISBN: 9781466571464
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Industrial Design
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The capability modeling and simulation (M&S) supplies for managing systems complexity and investigating systems behaviors has made it a central activity in the development of new and existing systems. However, a handbook that provides established M&S practices has not been available. Until now. Modeling and Simulation-Based Systems Engineering Handbook details the M&S practices for supporting systems engineering in diverse domains. It discusses how you can identify systems engineering needs and adapt these practices to suit specific application domains, thus avoiding redefining practices from scratch.

Although M&S practices are used and embedded within individual disciplines, they are often developed in isolation. However, they address recurring problems common to all disciplines. The editors of this book tackled the challenge by recruiting key representatives from several communities, harmonizing the different perspectives derived from individual backgrounds, and lining them up with the book's vision. The result is a collection of M&S systems engineering examples that offer an initial means for cross-domain capitalization of the knowledge, methodologies, and technologies developed in several communities. These examples provide the pros and cons of the methods and techniques available, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid.

As our society moves further in the information era, knowledge and M&S capabilities become key enablers for the engineering of complex systems and systems of systems. Therefore, knowledge and M&S methodologies and technologies become valuable output in an engineering activity, and their cross-domain capitalization is key to further advance the future practices in systems engineering. This book collates information across disciplines to provide you with the tools to more efficiently design and manage complex systems that achieve their goals.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Editors
• Contributing Authors
• List of Contributors
• chapter 1: Introduction to the modeling and simulation-based systems engineering handbook
• chapter 2: Systems engineering, architecture, and simulation
• chapter 3: System modeling : Principled operationalization of social systems using Presage2
• chapter 4: Formal agent-based models of social systems
• chapter 5: On the evolution toward computer-aided simulation
• chapter 6: Model-driven method to enable simulation-based analysis of complex systems
• chapter 7: Collaborative modeling and simulation in spacecraft design
• chapter 8: Performance engineering of distributed simulation programs
• chapter 9: Reshuffling PDES platforms for multi/many-core machines : A perspective with focus on load sharing
• chapter 10: Layered architectural approach for distributed simulation systems : The SimArch case
• chapter 11: Reuse-centric simulation software architectures
• chapter 12: Conceptual models become alive with Vivid OPM : How can animated visualization render abstract ideas concrete?
• chapter 13: Processes to support the quality of M&S artifacts
• chapter 14: Formal validation methods in model-based spacecraft systems engineering
• chapter 15: Modeling and simulation framework for systems engineering
• chapter 16: Liquid business process model collections
• chapter 17: Web-based simulation using Cell-DEVS modeling and GIS visualization
• Back Cover