Paul Fishwick, University of Florida

Published January, 1995 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1995, 432 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-098609-7

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Fishwick offers the first text to cover all three areas of simulation—Model Design, Model Execution, and Execution Analysis—in one source. He focuses on model design (using an extension of object- oriented design called multimodeling) and algorithms for serial and parallel model execution. Also covered is the SimPack simulation toolkit, with a full chapter devoted to using SimPack programs.




presents a clear taxonomy of system models whose base set includes conceptual, declarative, functional, constraint and spatial.

• students learn how many system modeling techniques—often found previously in hard-to-find, discipline- specific books—are integrated into a clean organization based on object-oriented principles.

includes a chapter on multimodeling, which describes a methodology for weaving together models of different types to form a multi- layer hybrid model.

• students learn how to perform heterogeneous as well as the more usual homogeneous model decomposition.

presents a chapter on parallel and distributed methods for simulation, including conservative and optimistic simulation approaches for functional models, solving PDEs in parallel, and distributed interactive simulation (DIS).

• students learn how to speed the model execution process by parallelizing models, and how to employ DIS to build “human in the loop” simulations.

incorporates SimPack C and C++ toolkit, which is freely available on the Internet and has compounds in C and C++.

• students begin with a well-known language that they are comfortable with, then build simulation models using SimPack programs, libraries and templates.

takes an example-driven approach meaning that students learn, not only fundamental simulation principles and model taxonomy, but also how the methods are applied to real-world problems in a variety of disciplines.
includes in each chapter a Projects section, which lists implementation projects, and a Software section, which provides links to free software on the Internet for the model types in that chapter.
to access the Introduction Chapter on the World Wide Web.
The Chapter, with embedded figures, is online in HTML format (used on the World Wide Web (WWW). It provides the instructor with an overview of the book's content as well as the philosophy underlying the taxonomy. The URL of the Introduction Chapter is: http://www.cis.ufl.edu/fishwick.
To access this information, one must have access to a WWW client program. Client programs are available for most platforms including the Macintoch, PC and Unix Workstation.
Unix Workstation: Xmosaic
Macintosh: MacMosaic PC: Cello, WinMosaic
Next: Mosaic
In any of the above programs, 1) start the program, 2) select OPEN URL and then 3) input the above URL to obtain access to the chapter.

1. Introduction.
2. Foundations.
3. Conceptual Modeling.
4. Declarative Modeling.
5. Functional Modeling.
6. Constraint Modeling.
7. Spatial Modeling.
8. Multimodeling.
9. Parallel and Distributed Simulation.
10. SimPack Toolkit.

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