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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.
List of contents
Part One: Background1. Modeling and Simulation: a Comprehensive and Integrative View (Tuncer I. Ören)2. Autonomic Introspective Simulation Systems (Levent Yilmaz and Bradley Mitchell)Part Two: Agents and Modeling and Simulation3. Agents: Agenthood, Agent Architectures, and Agent Taxonomies(Andreas Tolk and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher)4. Agent-directed Simulation (Levent Yilmaz and Tuncer I. Ören)Part Three: Systems Engineering and Quality Assurance for Agent-directed Simulation5. Systems Engineering: Basic Concepts and Life Cycle (Steven M. Biemer and Andrew P. Sage)6. Quality Assurance of Simulation Studies of Complex Networked Agent Systems (Osman Balci, William F. Ormsby, and Levent Yilmaz)7. Failure Avoidance in Agent-directed Simulation: Beyond Conventional v&v and qa (Tuncer I. Ören and Levent Yilmaz)8. Toward Systems Engineering for Agent-directed Simulation (Levent Yilmaz)9. Design and Analysis of Organization Adaptation in Agent Systems (Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, and Liz Sonenberg)10. Programming Languages, Environments, and Tools for Agent-directed Simulation (Yu Zhang, Mark Lewis, and Maarten Sierhuis)11. Simulation for Systems Engineering (Joachim Fuchs)12. Agent-directed Simulation for Systems Engineering (Philip S. Barry, Matthew T.K. Koehler, and Brian F. Tivnan)Part Four: Agent-directed Simulation for Systems Engineering13. Agent-implemented Experimental Frames for Net-centric Systems Test and Evaluation (Bernard P. Zeigler, Dane Hall, and Manuel Salas)14. Agents and Decision Support Systems (Andreas Tolk, Poornima Madhavan, Jeffrey W.Tweedale, and Lakhmi C. Jain)15. Agent Simulation for Software Process Performance Analysis (Levent Yilmaz and Jared Phillips)16. Agent-directed Simulation for Manufacturing System Engineering (Jeffrey S. Smith, Erdal Sahin, and Levent Yilmaz)17. Organization and Work Systems Design and Engineering: from Simulation to Implementation of Multiagent Systems (Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, and Chin H. Seah)
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"They provide an overview of the... areas; describe principles, methods, tools, and environments; and discuss application in such areas as testing and evaluation, process performance analysis, decision support, and organization and work system engineering." ( SciTech Book News , December 2010)
"It is probably the only book to date, to present the synergy between modeling and simulation, systems engineering, and agent technologies and to also deal with agent simulation and agent-supported simulation." ( Inside OR , November 2009)
