Overview
- Fully updated and expanded new edition
- The only textbook to give a balanced and integrated presentation of modelling and simulation activity for both discrete-event dynamic systems and continuous-time dynamic systems
- Contains numerous examples, algorithms, exercises and projects, in addition to a series of primers in the appendices, and teaching support material at an associated website
Part of the book series: Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications (SFMA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Fundamentals
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DEDS Modelling and Simulation
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CTDS Modelling and Simulation
About this book
This textbook presents a practical introduction to the fundamental aspects of modelling and simulation. It provides the necessary foundations both for those wishing to learn about this methodology and also for those who have a need to apply it in their work. Illustrative examples are drawn from projects formulated within the domains of both DEDS and CTDS. Features: presents a project-oriented perspective; describes an activity-based conceptual modelling framework (ABCmod) for DEDS; includes a new chapter that presents a novel world view, the Activity-Object world view, which eases the translation of a conceptual model specification in the ABCmod framework into a simulation program; contains numerous illustrative examples, useful algorithms, exercises and projects; includes a primer on probability, a concise guide to the GPSS programming environment and an overview of relevant MATLAB features in the appendices; provides supplementary software and teaching support material at an associated website.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Louis G. Birta is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa School of Information Technology and Engineering, and Co-Associate Director of the McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences.
Gilbert Arbez is a Teaching Associate in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modelling and Simulation
Book Subtitle: Exploring Dynamic System Behaviour
Authors: Louis G. Birta, Gilbert Arbez
Series Title: Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2783-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6836-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2783-3Published: 08 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2195-2817
Series E-ISSN: 2195-2825
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 437
Number of Illustrations: 184 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Graphics, Simulation and Modeling, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Economics, general