Full Description
This introductory textbook/reference addresses the fundamental and mostly applied kinds of models. The focus is on models of dynamic systems that move and change over time. However, the work also proposes new methods of uncertainty treatment, offering supporting examples.
Topics and features:
Chapters suitable for textbook use in teaching modeling and simulation
Includes sections of questions and answers, helpful in didactic work
Proposes new methodology in addition to examining conventional approaches
Offers some cognitive, more abstract models to give a wider insight on model building
The book's readership may consist of researchers working on multidisciplinary problems, as well educators and students. It may be used while teaching computer simulation, applied mathematics, system analysis and system dynamics.
Contents
1. Concept of Model.- 2. Continuous System Models.- 3. Differential inclusions, uncertainty and functional sensitivity.- 4. Functional sensitivity applications.- 5. Attainable sets in flight control.- 6. Discrete event models.- 7. Self-organization, dynamics and agent-based model .- 8. The space of models, semi-discrete events with fuzzy logic.- 9. Models and categories.- 10. Fuzzy time instants and time model.- 11. Reversibility and the 5th dimension.- 12. Modeling, simulation and optimization.
