Guide to modeling and simulation of systems of systems

✍ Scribed by Sarjoughian, Hessam S.; Zeigler, Bernard P

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Series: Simulation foundations methods and applications
• Edition: Second edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This easy-to-follow textbook provides an exercise-driven guide to the use of the Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) simulation modeling formalism and the System Entity Structure (SES) simulation model ontology supported with the latest advances in software architecture and design principles, methods, and tools for building and testing virtual Systems of Systems (SoS). The book examines a wide variety of SoS problems, ranging from cloud computing systems to biological systems in agricultural food crops. This enhanced and expanded second edition also features a new chapter on DEVS support for Markov modeling and simulation.

Topics and features: provides an extensive set of exercises throughout the text to reinforce the concepts and encourage use of the tools, supported by introduction and summary sections; discusses how the SoS concept and supporting virtual build and test environments can overcome the limitations of current approaches; offers a step-by-step introduction to the DEVS concepts and modeling environment features required to build sophisticated SoS models; describes the capabilities and use of the tools CoSMoS/DEVS-Suite, Virtual Laboratory Environment, and MS4 Me™; reviews a range of diverse applications, from the development of new satellite design and launch technologies, to surveillance and control in animal epidemiology; examines software/hardware co-design for SoS, and activity concepts that bridge information-level requirements and energy consumption in the implementation; demonstrates how the DEVS formalism supports Markov modeling within an advanced modeling and simulation environment (NEW).

This accessible and hands-on textbook/reference provides invaluable practical guidance for graduate students interested in simulation software development and cyber-systems engineering design, as well as for practitioners in these, and related areas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Modeling and Simulation of Systems of Systems (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 3-11
DEVS Integrated Development Environments (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 13-29
System Entity Structure Basics (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 31-42
DEVS Natural Language Models and Elaborations (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 43-69
Specialization and Pruning (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 71-79
Aspects and Multi-aspects (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 81-97
Managing Inheritance in Pruning (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 99-105
Automated and Rule-Based Pruning and Experimental Execution (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 107-121
Front Matter ....Pages 123-123
DEVS Simulation Protocol (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 125-146
Dynamic Structure: Agent Modeling and Publish/Subscribe (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 147-167
Interest-Based Information Exchange: Mappings and Models (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 169-191
Languages for Constructing DEVS Models (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 193-205
Front Matter ....Pages 207-207
Flexible Modeling Support Environments (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 209-235
Service-Based Software Systems (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 237-264
Cloud System Simulation Modeling (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 265-293
Model Development and Execution Process with Repositories, Validation, and Verification (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 295-324
Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 325-350
Activity-Based Implementations of Systems of Systems (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 351-370
DEVS Support for Markov Modeling and Simulation (Bernard P. Zeigler, Hessam S. Sarjoughian)....Pages 371-394
Back Matter ....Pages 395-400

✦ Subjects

Systems engineering -- Computer simulation