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Simulation Expansion and Transformation. Like all computer applications, modeling and simulation is expanding as a result of improvements in computer hardware and software technologies. There was a time when simulation was performed entirely by dedicated personnel using expensive, dedicated computer systems. We have reached a point where significant simulations can be performed on personal computers by experts in a specific field, without the need for a staff of simulation specialists.
Research in simulation itself is leading to an array of new technologies and methods for constructing and using models. Innovations include formalisms for defining models, interoperability of a diverse set of interactive simulations, metamodeling, human behavior modeling, and concurrent simulation.
Future. The manufacturing, research, planning, and training communities have discovered that answers to their questions and insights into their problems can be obtained economically and quickly from simulation models. As the world evolves into an information society, more and more business, recreation, and government activities will be defined in the form of digital data which can be organized, analyzed, and predicted using simulation. This power will drive the wide adoption of simulation by all forms of business and government.
REFERENCES
1991. Law, A. and Kelton W. Simulation Modeling and Analysis. New York: McGraw Hill.
1991. Schriber, T. An Introduction to Simulation Using GPSS/H. New York: John Wiley.
1993. Cassandras, C. Discrete Event Systems. Boston: Aksen Associates.
1993. Knepell, P. and Arangno, D. Simulation Validation: A Confidence Assessment Methodology. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press
1995. Fishwick, P. Simulation Model Design and Execution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
1996. Nance, R. "A History of Discrete Event Simulation Programming Languages". The History of Programming Languages - II. New York: Association of Computing Machinery.
1996. Charnes, John M, et al. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Roger D. Smith
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
Web Links
A great deal of information on simulation is available on the World Wide Web. The addresses of some of the more useful and dynamic organizations are provided below. More can be found by searching the web for simulation topics and from cross-links off of the provided addresses.
Conferences and Discussions
USENET News Group - "comp.simulation" archive
http://tebbit.eng.umd.edu/simulation/comp.simulation.archive.html
Winter Simulation Conference
http://www.wintersim.org/
Simulation Interoperability Workshop
http://www.sisostds.org/
Electronic Simulation Conference
http://www.scs.org/confernc/elecsim/elecsim.html
International Journal of Computer Simulation, Modeling, and Analysis
http://tebbit.eng.umd.edu/simulation/
On-line Executable Simulations
http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~fishwick/websim.html
http://ms.ie.org/websim/survey/survey.html
Discrete Event Simulation Server
http://masg1.epfl.ch/roso.mosaic/nino/devs.html
Systems Understanding Server
http://www.radix.net/~crbnblu/welcome.html
Military Offices
Defense Modeling and Simulation Information System
http://www.sc.ist.ucf.edu/
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office
http://www.dmso.mil/
Joint Modeling & Simulation System
http://www.jmass.wpafb.af.mil/
Joint Simulation System
http://www.jsims.mil/
Joint Warfare Simulation
http://www.dtic.mil/defenselink/jwars/
Joint Warfighting Center
http://www.jwfc.js.mil/
Professional Organizations
ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation
http://www.acm.org/sigsim
IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Simulation
http://www.ieee.org/
Society for Computer Simulation
http://www.scs.org/
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science
http://www.informs.org/
INFORMS College on Simulation
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/profOrg/informs/informs-sim
Military Operations Research Society
http://www.mors.org/
Companies
CACI
http://www.caci.com/
AutoSimulations
http://www.autosim.com/
Taylor II
http://www.taylorii.com/
Imagine That
http://www.imaginethatinc.com/
MultiGen
http://www.multigen.com/
Mak Technologies
http://www.mak.com/
Evans & Sutherland
http://www.es.com/
BoyanTech Inc.
http://www.wdn.com/bti-sim
The Alta Group
http://www.altagroup.com/
SES Inc.
http://www.ses.com/
MGA Software
http://www.mga.com/
Abstraction Software
http://www.abstraction.com/abstraction
High Performance Systems
http://www.hps-inc.com/
Virtual Prototypes
http://www.virtualprototypes.ca/
Universities with Simulation Curricula
Arizona State University
California Institute of Technology
California State University, Chico
Carnegie Mellon University
George Mason University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Naval Postgraduate School
North Carolina State University
Texas A&M University
University of Arizona
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Central Florida
University of Colorado
University of Florida
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Texas
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Virginia Polytechnic University
| Trademarked products referenced in the "Simulation Languages and Packages" section of the article: | |
| Trademark | Trademark Holder |
| GPSS/H SIMSCRIPT II.5 SIMGRAPHICS SIMAN/Cinema SLAM II MODSIM TAYLOR II COMNET III BONeS Designer CSIM18 CPSim ACSL VRLink ITEMS |
Wolverine Software CACI CACI Systems Modeling Corp. Pritsker Associates CACI F&H Simulations CACI The Alta Group Mesquite Software BoyanTech Inc. MGA Software MAK Technologies CAE Electronics |