Mastering Simulation is the best
introductory course on the breadth of modeling and simulation. It provides
an overview of each of the major categories of simulation applications
that have evolved over the last 300 years.
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to the course and overview of content.
to the terms, systems, and tools of simulation.
- Live Rehearsal. From Gladiators
to military training ranges to business role-playing.
- Virtual Reality. Immersive, interactive,
3D virtual worlds and the hardware that generates them.
- Wargames. Decision-making, Leadership
Development, and Business Prediction. From its origins as board games
in the 17th Century to the newest computer wargames in the 21st Century.
- Interoperability. Techniques
for networking distributed simulations using network protocols, service-based
infrastructures, modeling frameworks, and standard virtual environments.
- Systems Analysis. Operations
Research, Game Theory, Monte Carlo Techniques, QJM, and other scientific
approaches to decision-making.
- Discrete Event Simulation. Event
Scheduling, Process Interaction, Random Numbers, Simulation Programming
Languages, Parallel Simulation.
- Entertainment. Scientific and
Military modeling applied to computer games, video arcades, theme parks,
and hobby games.
- Conclusion, Summary, and References.