simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (10/04/88)
Volume: 5, Issue: 7, Tue Oct 4 09:25:28 EDT 1988 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) Battle Simulation (2) Simulation at the Colorado State University (3) Simulation at the University of Florida * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu, login as 'anonymous', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Simulations of Strategic War Date: Sat Oct 1 22:20:27 1988 I am familiar with some of the simulations that were written in the late 60's/70's such as SIR NEM (written for ACDA) and AEM (written for DOD). I also have access to a simpler model (also written in FORTRAN) that was used by for ACDA work in 1984/5. Is there anyone out there who is working on such simulations for use in seminars on U.S. defense policy? (I have sources for SIR NEM 12 and AEM 9, both in CDC FORTRAN IV. The newer simulation was written by Bill Baugh of Oregon. I also have a dataset for both U.S. and Soviet strategic forces between 1954 and 1979 that I am now updating; it is of sufficient complexity that counterforce strikes can be modeled using AEM). Michael L. Squires uucp: {necntc,cwjcc,hoptoad}!ncoast!peng!sir-alan!mikes Department of Political Science .!{pitt,uunet!convex}!sir-alan!mikes Allegheny College BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) Meadville, PA 16335 MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Office: 814 724 3360 Internet: sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu Home: 814 337 5528 Data: 814 {333-6728,337-3159} login of "ubbs" for BBS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 88 11:59:35 MDT From: mike@poa.NREL.ColoState.EDU (Mike Vevea) To: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Re: PhD programs in Simulation There is a very strong program at Colorado State University; its emphasis is in interdisciplinary biologically related simulations. (It is the group from CSU that was involved in the grasslands biome program during the biological equivalent to the International Geophysical Year project.) Because the program is interdisciplinary, there is no single department which runs it; a great deal of the work is done through the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, and most of the faculty who are involved with the program have joint appointments with NREL. mikeV (vevea@poa.NREL.ColoState.EDU or vevea@csugold.bitnet) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 88 17:31:11 EDT From: Paul Fishwick <fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu> To: simulation@ufl.edu In response to the request for Ph.D. programs in simulation, here is a rough overview of our simulation classes and related research efforts. -paul fishwick UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES GAINESVILLE, FL. 32611 (THE SYSTEMS AND SIMULATION GROUP) Graduate classes in Simulation: COP 5306 - Computer Simulation Concepts --------------------------------------- An introductory class for simulation topics. Discrete and continuous methods. A variety of applications. Concentration on a single sim. language such as SLAM II or GPSS. Combined Simulation. COP 6306 - Advanced Concepts in Computer Simulation --------------------------------------------------- An advanced class concentrating in formal methods for simulation modeling. Examples: bond graph structures, compartmental modeling, systems dynamics method, causal graph modeling, queuing and inventory methods. Theory of discrete and continuous simulation modeling (algebraic structures). FACULTY INTERESTS (SYSTEMS AND SIMULATION GROUP): Dr. Manuel Bermudez -> parallel methods for language systems. Dr. Randy Chow and Dr. Richard Newman-Wolfe -> operating system simulation. satellite network simulation and distributed simulation. Dr. Paul Fishwick -> simulation methods and applications. system science. artificial intelligence methods applied to simulation. dynamic visual display of scientific data. distributed simulation. Dr. Yann-Hang Lee -> distributed systems analysis and simulation. Dr. Alex Papachristidis -> performance evaluation and simulation of distributed architectures. Dr. Ravi Varadarajan -> simulation of parallel architectures. ------------------------------ +--------------------------+ | END OF SIMULATION DIGEST | +--------------------------+