Theory of Modeling and Simulation, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Bernard P. Zeigler (Author), Herbert Praehofer (Author), Tag Gon Kim (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 24, 2000

The increased computational power and software tools available to engineers have increased the use and dependence on modeling and computer simulation throughout the design process. These tools have given engineers the capability of designing highly complex systems and computer architectures that were previously unthinkable. Every complex design project, from integrated circuits, to aerospace vehicles, to industrial manufacturing processes requires these new methods. This book fulfills the essential need of system and control engineers at all levels in understanding modeling and simulation. This book, written as a true text/reference has become a standard sr./graduate level course in all EE departments worldwide and all professionals in this area are required to update their skills.

The book provides a rigorous mathematical foundation for modeling and computer simulation. It provides a comprehensive framework for modeling and simulation integrating the various simulation approaches. It covers model formulation, simulation model execution, and the model building process with its key activities model abstraction and model simplification, as well as the organization of model libraries. Emphasis of the book is in particular in integrating discrete event and continuous modeling approaches as well as a new approach for discrete event simulation of continuous processes. The book also discusses simulation execution on parallel and distributed machines and concepts for simulation model realization based on the High Level Architecture (HLA) standard of the Department of Defense.

* Presents a working foundation necessary for compliance with High Level Architecture (HLA) standards
* Provides a comprehensive framework for continuous and discrete event modeling and simulation
* Explores the mathematical foundation of simulation modeling
* Discusses system morphisms for model abstraction and simplification
* Presents a new approach to discrete event simulation of continuous processes
* Includes parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event models
* Presentation of a concept to achieve simulator interoperability in the form of the DEVS-Bus

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In addition to students of general and mathematical systems theory or of computer and information sciences, Zeigler (electrical and computer engineering, U. of Arizona) argues that students of any science and of business also benefit from knowing the theory of modeling. For students with a solid background in mathematics at the graduate or senior undergraduate level, he constructs a framework in which the concepts can be sketched in abstract forms and embodied in concrete modeling situations to further illuminate them. The first edition was published by Wiley Interscience in 1976; the second has been almost totally rewritten, for which task Zeigler has conscripted Herbert Praehoffer (systems science, Johannes Kepler U., Linz, Austria) and Tag Gon Kim (electrical engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon).Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

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* Provides a comprehensive framework for continuous and discrete event modeling and simulation
* Explores the mathematical foundation of simulation modeling
* Discusses system morphisms for model abstraction and simplification
* Presents a new approach to discrete event simulation of continuous processes
* Includes parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event models
* Presentation of a concept to achieve simulator interoperability in the form of the DEVS-Bus
* Complete coverage necessary for compliance with High Level Architecture (HLA) standards

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 510 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 2 edition (January 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0127784551
• ISBN-13: 978-0127784557
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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More About the Author

Bernard P. Zeigler is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation (ACIMS). He is internationally known for his 1976 foundational text Theory of Modeling and Simulation, revised for a second edition (Academic Press, 2000). He has published numerous books and research publications on the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the Society for Modeling and Simulation, International (SCS). He was inducted into the SCS Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame in 2009.

Zeigler is Chief Scientist for RTSync Corp., a spinoff of ACIMS devoted to transferring DEVS-based technology to general use. He is also on the staff of the C4I Center of George Mason University.

He enjoys collaborating with scientists and engineers, young and old, around the world.

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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the only book available for discrete events in OO, and HLA, January 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Theory of Modeling and Simulation, Second Edition (Hardcover)

The first edition of this book appeared in 1976 and had only one main author, Bernard P. Zeigler, who authored other appreciated classic text books. The first edition was already a must read for the simulation community, which has been asking for an updating. The new edition is not just a re-edition with small corrections. The advances in simulation and modelling techniques helped to design a really new edition, necessary to meet the need for a theoretical foundation. Bernie Zeigler developed a unifying formalism DEVS (Discrete Event System Specification). With DEVS it is not only possible to specify discrete event systems; it is also particularly suited to integrate both continuous and discrete paradigms for modelling and simulation (discrete time & differential equations). DEVS features are also present in the systems theory.

The first theme of this book is to propose a sound methodology for the construction of complex system models based on the unifying concept of the DEVS Bus. This concept enables the mapping into DEVS of different models expressed in various formalisms such as Petri nets, Hierarchical block diagrams, cellular automata. The second theme focuses on parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event models. Distributed simulation has the potential to support the co-existence of multiple formalisms in multimodels.

I will try to depict the merits and demerits in comparison to other current and past books. First of all, being in the simulation field for ten years now, I have to cite some complementary references. Without giving an exhaustive list of all recent valuable books in the simulation field, we can find other high quality simulation text books ; for instance for continuous simulation [Cellier 1991], for general purpose simulation [Fishwick 1995] or even for more specific object-oriented simulations [Hill 1996]. However, I must admit that this Theory of Modelling and Simulation¡¨ is the only book available to help construct efficient object-oriented simulations of DEVS models on parallel and distributed environments. In addition, modelers who have to deal with HLA (High Level Architecture) compliant simulations will find in the book the reference to design integrative simulations.

The best significant features of this book are:

*The presentation of a comprehensive framework for continuous and discrete event modelling and simulation The exploration of the mathematical foundation of simulation modelling.

*The discussion of system morphisms for model abstraction and simplification *The presentation of a new approach to discrete event simulation of continuous processes. *The discussion of model credibility and interoperation * The highlighting of design concepts like such as modular and hierarchical model composition. *The presentation of a sound methodology to achieve parallel and distributed simulation models.

The reviewer only regrets the lack of public availability for DEVS platforms, despite the quotation of a web site, simulation environments (such as DEVSJAVA) are a real need to fully understand practical and theoretical aspects.

This book has multiple facets. From my teaching and scientific experience, I would say that the primary audience comprises engineers, scientists and other technical people working in academic institutions, but there are many chapters particularly well suited for students at a graduate or even undergraduate level. In my opinion, this was not the case of a previous book from the main author [Zeigler 1990] which was an excellent reference for specialists. I am now impressed by this ability to communicate at various levels. I strongly recommend this book for the reader interested in any kind of simulation and modelling, its impact on research in control will surely be recognized.

References: [Cellier 1991] CELLIER F.E., Continuous System Modeling, Springer Verlag, 1991. [Fishwick 1995] FISHWICK P.A., Simulation Model Design : Building digital worlds, Prentice-Hall, 1995. [Hill 1996] HILL D., Object-Oriented Analysis and Simulation, Addison-Wesley Longmann, 1996. [Zeigler 1990] ZEIGLER B.P., O-O Simulation with hierarchical modular models : Intelligent agents and endomorphic systems. Academic Press, London, 1990

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A simulation ideas framework, May 5, 2001

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Eduardo El Ruiz Flores (Iquique, Chile/Iquique/Tarapacá Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Theory of Modeling and Simulation, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This book have a bad title, must be "Theory of Modeling and Simulation with DEVS".

There are not a real Integration about Discrete Event and Continuous Complex Dynamic Systems. Only a Discret Event Systems Specification (DEVS), nothing more that DEVS. The book is anything but no visual simulation, no numerics management, no probabilities, no DAE-equations, no research operations, no object simulation, no ...

The DEVS concept born with the promise of join different formalism in the 70's (join discreet and continuous simulation), but yet the concept actually in the book is very primitive and not consider real numerical methods in only one layer (remember that many real commercial simulation software is not based in DEVS concepts. Why?, -Maybe, the DEVS concept have a rigorous and innecesary strictness in the framework concepts in modeling and simulation.)

For other hand, this book have bad thigs and good things.

Bad things:

- The algorithms presented are only fragments of pseudocode like C++ (or Java?). Where is all framework code?.
- The concepts are not in a today systemic/cibernetic vision. This is bad, because the definitions and concepts are yet of 70's. (the book is a second edition, where is the change?).
- Actually the DEVS is considered the corner stone of basic theory of discreet simulations according to autor and others, but in a book there are not real simulations for probe the theory.
- Where is THE continuous complex dynamic systems?.
- Lack of code production of real numerical and computacional methods.

The good things:

- If you don't know what is a DEVS this book is your resp.
- Is a source of excellent ideas, in special the study of Quantization and the Systems Design and Environments of M&S (IV Cap.).

Finally, the best of book is not the DEVS concepts (the book is 80% about DEVS), is the math-way how the Autor try define a basic Simulation Framework independent of the model.

Because the above, is a must have in a simulations books.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book for whom considers simulation rigorously!, July 15, 2001

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MoonHo Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Theory of Modeling and Simulation, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This book looks somewhat difficult but I think that it is the best book for whom researchs modelling and simulation methodology. Based on mathematics, most contents of it were explained rigorously. From the origin of its 1976 version, now in the 2'nd book, DEVS(discrete event system specification) formalism has been extended to cover the continuous state system as well. In addition to, the various extended versions of DEVS, such as Parallel DEVS, Real-time DEVS, Fuzzy DEVS, has been aloso dealt in it.

If you are familiar with the set-theory and the system theory (dealing with inputs and outputs) and looking for the simulation methodology from any IO system view, the book must be the best book to you.