SIMULATION

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CONTENTS
Preface  

What simulation is ?

Modeling
        Causal systems
        D-simulations
        Individual- and agent-based modeling
        Linear dynamic system
        Modeling
        Model credibility
        Model validation
        Neural networks
        Object-oriented simulation
        Prey-predator models
        Qualitative simulation and reasoning
        Soft systems
        System state
        Tractability
        Uncertainty in modeling
        Variance reduction
        Verification

General purpose tools
                CADmotion
        CRISTAL BALL
        EXTEND
        FORESIGHT
        MATLAB
        MODSIM III
        Monte Carlo simulation
        Neural toolbox - MATLAB
        PASION
        PROLOG as a simulation tool
        SIMPLE++
        Simula67
        Virtual reality
        VRML Virtual reality modeling language

Continuous simulation
        ACSL
                acslXtreme 
        Analog simulation
        ADAMS - Mechanisms simulation 
        ADSIM
        ANSYS
        ANSYS/Flotran
        AUTOSIM
        Bond graphs
        Bond graph simulator
        CADSIM Plus : Dynamic Chemical Process Simulation
        Continuous simulation
        CSSL
        DADS -  mechanism simulation 
        DSNP - Nuclear plant simulator
        DYMOLA 
        EASY5x
        ESL
        FANSIM
        FLUIDS32 - Fluid dynamics simulation 
        FLOWD - PASION Signal Flow Graphs module
        MATRIXx    
        PSM++ ODE Models editor and simulator
        PIPESIM : flow simulation software for wells and pipeline systems
        PRO/ENGINEER
                Robot kinematics
                SIMULINK
                SPICE - Circuit simulation
                SolidWorks
                Universal mechanism
                VisSim       
Discrete simulation
        ARENA
        ATM networks simulation  (communications systems) 
        BATCHES
        CINEMA
        CSL
        DEVS
        Discrete event simulation
        Event queue management   
        FACTOR
        GPSS
        GSS
        IPME : Discrete-event simulation software environment for modeling human performance
        Manufacturing simulation - example
        PASION Animator
        PCmodel
        Petri nets 
        Poisson process 
        PROMODEL
        QMGW - The PASION Queuing Model Generator
        QUEST 
                Road traffic simulation
        SIMAN
        SIMFACTORY
        SIMNET 
        SIMSCRIPT
                SIMUL8
        SLAM II
        SMALLTALK
        Strategies of event and process simulation
        SWARM
        TAYLOR  ED
        TurboSim

Systems Dynamics
                DYNAMO             
                ITHINK
        POWERSIM
        STELLA
        Systems dynamics

Miscellany
        Aliasing
                Car suspension simulation
        COMNET III - object-oriented tool 
        CORBA
        DESIREE - neural networks simulation 
        Distributed simulation
        Galactic simulations
        Genetic algorithms
        High Level Architecture        
        Marketing simulation
        Mission Earth - environmental modeling
        Metamodeling
        Simulators
        The Society for Computer simulation
                Uncertain future and traveling in time  
        Web-based simulation

Mathematical tools
        Birth-and-death equation
        Differential inclusions
        Finite element method
        Fuzzy logic
        Latin hypercube
        Markov processes
        Numerical methods for ODE models for ordinary differential equations
        ODE - Ordinary differential equations 
        Partial differential equations
        Predictor-corrector methods for ODE models
                Queuing Theory
        Random numbers
        Random variables with non-uniform distribution
        Richardson approximation
        Runge-Kutta methods
        Signal-flow graphs
        Stiff equations
        Stochastic process
        Transfer function
        
        




        
        
        
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