Modeling and Simulation in the Systems Engineering Life Cycle: Core Concepts and Accompanying Lectures [Hardcover]

This easy to read text provides a broad introduction to the fundamental concepts of modeling and simulation (M&S) and systems engineering, highlighting how M&S is used across the entire systems engineering lifecycle. Features: reviews the full breadth of technologies, methodologies and uses of M&S, rather than just focusing on a specific aspect of the field; presents contributions from specialists in each topic covered; introduces the foundational elements and processes that serve as the groundwork for understanding M&S; explores common methods and methodologies used in M&S; discusses how best to design and execute experiments, covering the use of Monte Carlo techniques, surrogate modeling and distributed simulation; explores the use of M&S throughout the systems development lifecycle, describing a number of methods, techniques, and tools available to support systems engineering processes; provides a selection of case studies illustrating the use of M&S in systems engineering across a variety of domains.

Part I: Modeling & Simulation Fundamentals.- Introduction to Modeling & Simulation.- The Modeling & Simulation Lifecycle Process.- Fidelity, Resolution, Accuracy and Uncertainty.- Conceptual Modeling.- Types of Models.- Model Verification & Validation.- Part II: Methods and Methodologies.- Modeling the Environment.- Modeling Behavior.- Modeling Time.- Discrete Event Simulation.- Continuous Time Simulation.- Agent Based Simulation.- System Dynamics Simulation.- Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation.- Human-in-the-Loop Simulation.- Part III: Experimentation, Execution & Results.- Design of Experiments.- Surrogate Modeling.- Monte Carlo Analysis.- Wargames.- Distributed Simulation & Architectures.- Part IV: Introduction to Systems Engineering.- Systems Engineering Fundamentals.- Introduction to Systems Thinking.- Model Based Systems Engineerlã‹