Agent-Directed Simulation and Systems Engineering

The only book to present the synergy between modeling and simulation, systems engineering, and agent technologies expands the notion of agent-based simulation to also deal with agent simulation and agent-supported simulation. Accessible to both practitioners and managers, it systematically addresses designing and building agent systems from a systems engineering perspective.

The only book to present the synergy of modeling and simulation (M&S), systems engineering, and agent technologies; takes into account all three aspects of the synergy of M&S and agents, i.e. agent simulation, agent-supported simulation, and agent-based simulation.

Accessible to practitioners, researchers, and managers, it systematically addresses designing and building advanced agent-directed modelling and simulation systems from a systems engineering perspective.

Levent Yilmaz is associate professor at the departments of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering, Auburn University, USA. Professor Yilmaz received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, USA. His research interests include modeling and computer simulation, agent-directed simulation, and complex adaptive systems. Professor Yilmaz has contributed to the advancement of the theory and methodology of modeling and simulation via novel formalisms such as generative simulation, autonomic introspective simulation and their use in decision/creativity support systems. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International.

Tuncer I. Ören is professor emeritus of Computer Science at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) of the University of Ottawa, Canada where he started 1970. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. His research interests include advanced methodologies for modeling and simulation, agent-directed simulation, cognitive simulation, reliability, quality, and ethics in simulation as well as body of knowledge and terminology of simulation. He has published over 300 papers and 20 books and contributed to over 370 conferences and seminars held in 30 countries.