Systems of systems are at the root of this century's global economic, climate, and energy challenges. This volume provides an approach that integrates both energy and information processing requirements into system design.

Presents modeling and simulation to support the virtual build and test of systems of systems

Combines reader-friendly logical development and readability with technical exposition

Each chapter includes a summary, review questions and, when appropriate, case studies, exercises, and/or examples

Enhanced second edition featuring a new chapter on DEVS support for Markov modeling and simulation

Autorentext
Dr. Bernard P. Zeigler is Emeritus Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Co-Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation (ACIMS), at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He is also Chief Scientist at RTSync, Rockville, MD, USA.

Dr. Hessam S. Sarjoughian is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of ACIMS at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

The chapter Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems is contributed by Raphaël Duboz and Jean-Christophe Soulié of CIRAD (the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development), France.

Inhalt

Part I.- Modeling and Simulation of Systems of Systems.- DEVS Integrated Development Environments.- System Entity Structure Basics.- DEVS Natural Language Models and Elaborations.- Specialization and Pruning.- Aspects and Multi-Aspects.- Managing Inheritance in Pruning.- Automated and Rule-Based Pruning.- Part II.- DEVS Simulation Protocol.- Dynamic Structure: Agent Modeling and Publish/Subscribe.- Interest-Based Information Exchange: Mappings and Models.- Languages for Constructing DEVS Models.- Part III.- Flexible Modeling Support Environments.- Service-Based Software Systems.- Cloud System Simulation Modeling.- Model Development and Execution Process with Repositories, Validation and Verification.- Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems.- Activity-Based Implementations of Systems of Systems.- DEVS Support for Markov Modeling and Simulation. <p