Mastering Simulation

Detailed Outline

  1. Foundations

    Introduces the seven unique niches of simulation and modeling. Recognize and understand the keywords and concepts.

  2. Live Rehearsal

    From the Gladiators to business role-playing to military exercises and childhood education - explore the impact of live rehearsal.

  3. Virtual Reality

    Immersive devices, computer image generation, visualization techniques, digital environments and distributed worlds.

  4. System Analysis

    Operations research, game theory, Monte Carlo techniques, Lagrange Multipliers, QJM, and scientific approaches to decision-making.

  5. Discrete Event Simulation

    Event scheduling, activity scanning, process interaction, random numbers, random variates, simulation languages, modeling tools and parallel simulation.

  6. Interoperability

    From custom interfaces to standard protocols, service-based infrastructures, frameworks, and shared modeling environments.

  7. Wargaming

    Simulation as a real-time stimulus for decision-making, leadership development, and business prediction.

  8. Entertainment

    The tools of science, business, and the military move to computer games, video arcades, theme parks and the Internet.