Modeling and Simulation in the Systems Engineering Life Cycle

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 Engineering.- Part V: M&S in Systems Engineering Life Cycle.- Real-time Data Driven Arterial Simulation for Performance Measure Estimation.- Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate.- Framework Assessing Cost and Technology.- Model Based Systems Engineering: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Therapy.- Computational Modeling of Complex Enterprise Systems: A Multi-Level Approach.- Real Time Simulation of a Nuclear Power Plant with Embedded Hardware.- Return on Investment Metrics for Funding Modeling and Simulation.