Modeling and Simulation / RSP Bird (PDF)

Simulation is the art of using tools - physical or conceptual
models, or computer hardware and software, to attempt to create the
illusion of reality. The discipline has in recent years expanded to
include the modelling of systems that rely on human factors and
therefore possess a large proportion of uncertainty, such as
social, economic or commercial systems. These new applications make
the discipline of modelling and simulation a field of dynamic
growth and new research.

Stanislaw Raczynski outlines the considerable and promising
research that is being conducted to counter the problems of
uncertainty surrounding the methods used to approach these new
applications. It aims to stimulate the reader into seeking out new
tools for modelling and simulation.

* Examines the state-of-the-art in recent research into methods
of approaching new applications in the field of modelling and
simulation

* Provides an introduction to new modelling tools such as
differential inclusions, metric structures in the space of models,
semi-discrete events, and use of simulation in parallel
optimization techniques

* Discusses recently developed practical applications: for
example the PASION simulation system, stock market simulation, a
new fluid dynamics tool, manufacturing simulation and the
simulation of social structures

* Illustrated throughout with a series of case studies

Modelling and Simulation: The Computer Science of
Illusion will appeal to academics, postgraduate students,
researchers and practitioners in the modelling and simulation of
industrial computer systems. It will also be of interest to those
using simulation as an auxiliary tool.