Modeling and simulation

M&S helps to reduce costs, increase the quality of products and systems, and document and archive lessons learned.

Because the results of a simulation are only as good as the underlying model(s), engineers, operators, and analysts must pay particular attention to its construction.

To ensure that the results of the simulation are applicable to the real world, the user must understand the assumptions, conceptualizations, and constraints of its implementation.

Instead, mathematical knowledge and computational power is used to solve real-world problems cheaply and in a time efficient manner.

M&S in the fields of medicine, transportation, and other industries is poised to rapidly outstrip DoD's use of M&S in the years ahead, if it hasn't already happened.

A comprehensive and concise representation of concepts, terms, and activities is needed that make up a professional Body of Knowledge for the M&S discipline.

A collection of applicative modeling and simulation method to support systems engineering activities in provided in.

Simulation systems improve their functionality by adding the dynamic element and allow to compute estimates and predictions, including optimization and what-if analyses.

Modeling is understood as the purposeful abstraction of reality, resulting in the formal specification of a conceptualization and underlying assumptions and constraints.

Conceptualization and implementation – modeling and simulation – are two activities that are mutually dependent, but can nonetheless be conducted by separate individuals.

[13] The M&S BoK Index is a set of pointers providing handles so that subject information content can be denoted, identified, accessed, and manipulated.