1. Edition - September 2009
162.- Euro
2009. XXVI, 524 Pages, Hardcover
183 Fig., 21 Tab. 
- Monograph -
ISBN-10: 3-527-40781-2
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40781-1 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin






Content

Sample Chapter

Index



Short description
This book presents an accessible account of the contribution of systems engineering to modeling and simulation, especially to agent-directed simulation (ADS). With an emphasis on the application of ADS systems engineering to large and complex systems.

From the contents
Part One: Background
1. Modeling and Simulation: a Comprehensive and Integrative View (Tuncer I. Ören)
2. Autonomic Introspective Simulation Systems (Levent Yilmaz and Bradley Mitchell)

Part Two: Agents and Modeling and Simulation
3. Agents: Agenthood, Agent Architectures, and Agent Taxonomies
(Andreas Tolk and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher)
4. Agent-directed Simulation (Levent Yilmaz and Tuncer I. Ören)

Part Three: Systems Engineering and Quality Assurance for Agent-directed Simulation
5. Systems Engineering: Basic Concepts and Life Cycle (Steven M. Biemer and Andrew P. Sage)
6. Quality Assurance of Simulation Studies of Complex Networked Agent Systems (Osman Balci, William F. Ormsby, and Levent Yilmaz)
7. Failure Avoidance in Agent-directed Simulation: Beyond Conventional v&v and qa (Tuncer I. Ören and Levent Yilmaz)
8. Toward Systems Engineering for Agent-directed Simulation (Levent Yilmaz)
9. Design and Analysis of Organization Adaptation in Agent Systems (Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, and Liz Sonenberg)
10. Programming Languages, Environments, and Tools for Agent-directed Simulation (Yu Zhang, Mark Lewis, and Maarten Sierhuis)
11. Simulation for Systems Engineering (Joachim Fuchs)
12. Agent-directed Simulation for Systems Engineering (Philip S. Barry, Matthew T.K. Koehler, and Brian F. Tivnan)

Part Four: Agent-directed Simulation for Systems Engineering
13. Agent-implemented Experimental Frames for Net-centric Systems Test and Evaluation (Bernard P. Zeigler, Dane Hall, and Manuel Salas)
14. Agents and Decision Support Systems (Andreas Tolk, Poornima Madhavan, Jeffrey W.Tweedale, and Lakhmi C. Jain)
15. Agent Simulation for Software Process Performance Analysis (Levent Yilmaz and Jared Phillips)
16. Agent-directed Simulation for Manufacturing System Engineering (Jeffrey S. Smith, Erdal Sahin, and Levent Yilmaz)
17. Organization and Work Systems Design and Engineering: from Simulation to Implementation of Multiagent Systems (Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, and Chin H. Seah)