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Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems
by Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez Sebastián Salvador Martorell Alsina Javier Faulin Angel A. JuanSimulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems discusses the use of computer simulation-based techniques and algorithms to determine reliability and availability (R and A) levels in complex systems. The book: shares theoretical or applied models and decision support systems that make use of simulation to estimate and to improve system R and A levels, forecasts emerging technologies and trends in the use of computer simulation for R and A and proposes hybrid approaches to the development of efficient methodologies designed to solve R and A-related problems in real-life systems. Dealing with practical issues, Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems is designed to support managers and system engineers in the improvement of R and A, as well as providing a thorough exploration of the techniques and algorithms available for researchers, and for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Simulation Modeling Handbook: A Practical Approach
by Christopher A. ChungThe use of simulation modeling and analysis is becoming increasingly more popular as a technique for improving or investigating process performance. This book is a practical, easy-to-follow reference that offers up-to-date information and step-by-step procedures for conducting simulation studies. It provides sample simulation project support materi
Simulation Systems
by George W. ZobristSimulation Systems expolres a wide spectrum of topics including simulation software, logic simulation, query-driven simulation, multi-computer simulation and manufacturing simulation. Although such papers are presented in Journals and conference proceedings it is difficult to find a single source where the foremost papers are presented. Contributio
Simulation Technologies in Networking and Communications: Selecting the Best Tool for the Test
by Al-Sakib Khan Pathan Muhammad Mostafa Monowar Shafiullah KhanSimulation is a widely used mechanism for validating the theoretical model of networking or communication systems. Although the claims made based on simulations are considered to be reliable, how reliable they really are is best determined with real-world implementation trials. This book addresses various issues covering different mechanisms related to simulation technologies in networking and communications fields. Focusing on the practice of simulation testing instead of the theory, it reviews and evaluates popular simulation modeling tools and recommends the best tools for specific tests.
Simulation Tools and Methods for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Radial Inflow Turbine: Development and Application on Open-Source Code
by Jianhui QiTo protect the Earth, China has launched its target of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 , which greatly encourages the use and development of renewable energy. Supercritical CO2 power cycle is a promising technology and the radial inflow turbine is the most important component of it, whose design and optimisation are considered as great challenges. This book introduces simulation tools and methods for supercritical CO2 radial inflow turbine, including a high fidelity quasi-one-dimensional design procedure, a non-ideal compressible fluid dynamics Riemann solver within open-source CFD software OpenFOAM framework, and a multi-objective Nelder–Mead geometry optimiser. Enhanced one-dimensional loss models are presented for providing a new insight towards the preliminary design of the supercritical CO2 radial inflow turbine. Since the flow phenomena within the blade channels are complex, involving fluid flow, shock wave transmission and boundary layer separation, only employing the ideal gas model is inadequate to predict the performance of the turbine. Thus, a non-ideal compressible fluid dynamics Riemann solver based on OpenFOAM library is developed. This book addresses the issues related to the turbine design and blade optimization and provides leading techniques. Hence, this book is of great value for the readers working on the supercritical CO2 radial inflow turbine and understanding the knowledge of CFD and turbomachinery.
Simulation Tools for Predicting Daylighting Conditions in Buildings (Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction)
by Erika DolníkováThis book delves into the underexplored realm of daylight comfort in industrial structures, providing real measured data and insights supported by advanced simulations using the RADIANCE program. It highlights the vital role of daylight in human well-being and sustainable building design, offering a comprehensive analysis of how daylighting strategies and green technologies can reduce carbon footprints. With a focus on practical applications, the book guides designers in using simulation tools to predict and enhance indoor daylight environments, ensuring comfort and efficiency from design to completion.
Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Applications
by Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine Nane PehuetDrawing on decades of industrial experience, this insightful and practical guide uses case studies and an interdisciplinary perspective to explain the fundamentals of simulation training to improve performance of high-risk professional activities. It seeks to identify those conditions under which simulation training has been shown to improve professional practice while employing extensive real examples. Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Application helps readers to develop their own synthesis of the simulation learning method and to use such training to enhance their skills and performance. Case studies demonstrate five specific theatres of professional practice - the nuclear-power industry, aeronautics, surgery, anesthesia and metallurgy - and then detailed analysis highlights the common factors and key results. The author's background as a Human Factors Consultant, Physicist and Physiologist has enriched studies of humans in work situations, work organization and management and he has also been involved in pedagogical conception of experimental training on simulators based on his experience as a safety expert on nuclear power plant. The book is useful to practitioners, researchers and students, both in industry and in university. It is clearly cross disciplinary as it presents and discusses applications in engineering, professional practice (airline pilots) and medicine.
Simulation and Gaming in the Network Society
by Toshiyuki Kaneda Hidehiko Kanegae Yusuke Toyoda Paola RizziThis book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17-25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming has been used in a wide variety of areas ranging from early childhood education and school-age children, universities, and professional education, to policy exploration and social problem solving. Moreover, it now been drastically changing its features in the Internet Of Things (IOT) society while taking over a wide variety of aliases, such as serious games and gamification. Most of the papers on which this book's chapters are based were written by academic researchers, both up-and-coming and well known. In addition, simulation and gaming is a translational system science going from theory to clinical cross-disciplinary topics. With this book, therefore, graduate students and higher-level researchers, educators, and practitioners can become familiar with the state-of-the-art academic research on simulation and gaming in the network society of the twenty-first century.
Simulation and Its Discontents
by Sherry TurkleOver the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents,Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle's description of architecture students who no longer design with a pencil, of science and engineering students who admit that computer models seem more "real" than experiments in physical laboratories. Echoing architect Louis Kahn's famous question, "What does a brick want?", Turkle asks, "What does simulation want?" Simulations want, even demand, immersion, and the benefits are clear. Architects create buildings unimaginable before virtual design; scientists determine the structure of molecules by manipulating them in virtual space; physicians practice anatomy on digitized humans. But immersed in simulation, we are vulnerable. There are losses as well as gains. Older scientists describe a younger generation as "drunk with code." Young scientists, engineers, and designers, full citizens of the virtual, scramble to capture their mentors' tacit knowledge of buildings and bodies. From both sides of a generational divide, there is anxiety that in simulation, something important is slipping away. Turkle's examination of simulation over the past twenty years is followed by four in-depth investigations of contemporary simulation culture: space exploration, oceanography, architecture, and biology. Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life, edited by John Maeda
Simulation and Learning
by Franco LandriscinaThe main idea of this book is that to comprehend the instructional potential of simulation and to design effective simulation-based learning environments, one has to consider both what happens inside the computer and inside the students' minds. The framework adopted to do this is model-centered learning, in which simulation is seen as particularly effective when learning requires a restructuring of the individual mental models of the students, as in conceptual change. Mental models are by themeselves simulations, and thus simulation models can extend our biological capacity to carry out simulative reasoning. For this reason, recent approaches in cognitive science like embodied cognition and the extended mind hypothesis are also considered in the book.. A conceptual model called the "epistemic simulation cycle" is proposed as a blueprint for the comprehension of the cognitive activies involved in simulation-based learning and for instructional design.
Simulation and Learning: A Model-Centered Approach
by Franco LandriscinaThe main idea of this book is that to comprehend the instructional potential of simulation and to design effective simulation-based learning environments, one has to consider both what happens inside the computer and inside the students' minds. The framework adopted to do this is model-centered learning, in which simulation is seen as particularly effective when learning requires a restructuring of the individual mental models of the students, as in conceptual change. Mental models are by themeselves simulations, and thus simulation models can extend our biological capacity to carry out simulative reasoning. For this reason, recent approaches in cognitive science like embodied cognition and the extended mind hypothesis are also considered in the book.. A conceptual model called the "epistemic simulation cycle" is proposed as a blueprint for the comprehension of the cognitive activies involved in simulation-based learning and for instructional design.
Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: 10th International Conference, SIMULTECH 2020 Lieusaint - Paris, France, July 8-10, 2020 Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #306)
by Mohammad S. Obaidat Floriano De Rango Tuncer OrenThis book includes a set of selected best-extended papers from the 10th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2020) that was held as an online event from July 8 to 10, 2020. The conference brought together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also on the conference chairs assessment, reviewers’ assessment, quality of presentation, and audience interest, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of the conference.
Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: 12th International Conference, SIMULTECH 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, July 14–16, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #780)
by Gerd Wagner Frank Werner Floriano De RangoThis present book includes a set of selected best extended papers from the 12th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2022), that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 14 to 16, 2022. The conference brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also on the conference chairs assessment, reviewers’ assessment, quality of presentation and audience interest, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of the conference. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book.
Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: 13th International Conference, SIMULTECH 2023 Rome, Italy, July 12-14, 2023 Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1211)
by Gerd Wagner Frank Werner Floriano De RangoThis book includes a set of selected best extended papers from the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2023), that was held in Rome, Italy, from July 12 to 14. The conference brought together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also on the conference chairs assessment, reviewers’ assessment, quality of presentation, and audience interest, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of the conference. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book.
Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: 8th International Conference, SIMULTECH 2018, Porto, Portugal, July 29-31, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #947)
by Mohammad S. Obaidat Tuncer Ören Floriano De RangoThis book includes a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2018), held in Porto, Portugal, from July 29 to 31, 2018. Presenting new and innovative solutions, the book features extended and revised versions of the very best conference papers as well as the latest research in the field.
Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: 9th International Conference, SIMULTECH 2019 Prague, Czech Republic, July 29-31, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1260)
by Mohammad S. Obaidat Tuncer Ören Helena SzczerbickaThe present book includes a set of selected best extended papers from the 9th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2019), that was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 29 to 31 July 2019. The conference brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based alsoon the conference chairs assessment, reviewers’ assessment, quality of presentation, and audience interest, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of the conference. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book.
Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: International Online Conference (SIMULTECH 2021) (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #601)
by Gerd Wagner Frank Werner Floriano De Rango Tuncer OrenThe present book includes a set of selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2021) that was held as an online event, from July 7 to 9, 2021. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also on the conference chairs assessment, reviewers’ assessment, quality of presentation and audience interest, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of the conference.
Simulation and Modeling of Systems of Systems
by Dominique Luzeaux Pascal CantotSystems engineering is the design of a complex interconnection of many elements (a system) to maximize a specific measure of system performance. It consists of two parts: modeling, in which each element of the system and its performance criteria are described; and optimization in which adjustable elements are tailored to allow peak performance. Systems engineering is applied to vast numbers of problems in industry and the military. An example of systems engineering at work is the control of the timing of thousands of city traffic lights to maximize traffic flow. The complex and intricate field of electronics and computers is perfectly suited for systems engineering analysis and in turn, advances in communications and computer technology have made more advanced systems engineering problems solvable. Thus, the two areas fed off of one another. This book is a basic introduction to the use of models and methods in the engineering design of systems. It is aimed at students as well as practicing engineers. The concept of the "systems of systems" is discussed extensively, after a critical comparison of the different definitions and a range of various practical illustrations. It also provides key answers as to what a system of systems is and how its complexity can be mastered.
Simulation and Optimization of Digital Circuits: Considering And Mitigating Destabilizing Factors
by Vazgen MelikyanThis book describes new, fuzzy logic-based mathematical apparatus, which enable readers to work with continuous variables, while implementing whole circuit simulations with speed, similar to gate-level simulators and accuracy, similar to circuit-level simulators. The author demonstrates newly developed principles of digital integrated circuit simulation and optimization that take into consideration various external and internal destabilizing factors, influencing the operation of digital ICs. The discussion includes factors including radiation, ambient temperature, electromagnetic fields, and climatic conditions, as well as non-ideality of interconnects and power rails.
Simulation and Serious Games for Education
by Yiyu Cai Sui Lin Goei Wim TroosterThis book introduces state-of-the-art research on simulation and serious games for education. The major part of this book is based on selected work presented at the 2014 Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Games held in Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands (Oct 1-2, 2014). It covers three major domains of education applications that use simulation and serious games: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education; Special Needs Education and Humanity and Social Science Education. Researchers and developers in simulation and serious games for education benefit from this book, and it also offers educators and professionals involved in training insights into the possible applications of simulation and serious games in various areas.
Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging: 5th International Workshop, SASHIMI 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru, October 4, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12417)
by Ninon Burgos David Svoboda Jelmer M. Wolterink Can ZhaoThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2020, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020, in Lima, Peru, in October 2020. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The contributions span the following broad categories in alignment with the initial call-for-papers: methods based on generative models or adversarial learning for MRI/CT/PET/microscopy image synthesis, and several applications of image synthesis and simulation for data augmentation, image enhancement or segmentation.
Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging: 7th International Workshop, SASHIMI 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore, September 18, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13570)
by David Svoboda Jelmer M. Wolterink Can Zhao Maria EscobarThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in Singapore, Singapore in September 2022.
Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging: 8th International Workshop, SASHIMI 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14288)
by David Svoboda Jelmer M. Wolterink Can Zhao Virginia FernandezThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2023, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2023, in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2023.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They span a wide range of topics relevant to SASHIMI, and reflect recent developments in methods for segmentation, image-to-image translation, super-resolution, and image synthesis. Applications include MRI imaging, echocardiography, PET, and digital pathology.
Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging: 9th International Workshop, SASHIMI 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 10, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15187)
by David Wiesner Jelmer M. Wolterink Virginia Fernandez Lianrui Zuo Samuel Remedios Adrià CasamitjanaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024. The 19 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They focus on recent developments in methods for image-to-image translation, image synthesis, biophysical modelling, super-resolution and image segmentation and classification.
Simulation and Wargaming
by Andreas Tolk Curtis Blais Charles TurnitsaUnderstanding the potential synergies between computer simulation and wargamingBased on the insights of experts in both domains, Simulation and Wargaming comprehensively explores the intersection between computer simulation and wargaming. This book shows how the practice of wargaming can be augmented and provide more detail-oriented insights using computer simulation, particularly as the complexity of military operations and the need for computational decision aids increases. The distinguished authors have hit upon two practical areas that have tremendous applications to share with one another but do not seem to be aware of that fact. The book includes insights into: The application of the data-driven speed inherent to computer simulation to wargames The application of the insight and analysis gained from wargames to computer simulation The areas of concern raised by the combination of these two disparate yet related fields New research and application opportunities emerging from the intersection Addressing professionals in the wargaming, modeling, and simulation industries, as well as decision makers and organizational leaders involved with wargaming and simulation, Simulation and Wargaming offers a multifaceted and insightful read and provides the foundation for future interdisciplinary progress in both domains.