Dr. Mikel Petty, UAHuntsville

Director of Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering & Engineering Management

Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:00 – 1:00

Dynetics Corporate HQ, 1002 Explorer Blvd, Huntsville, AL 35806

(see map at www.dynetics.com/pdf/HuntsvilleAlabama.pdf)  

RSVP by noon on Thursday, 25 July, to charlene.neely@dynetics.com, and include citizenship status

Lunch will be catered. Please bring $10 to help with Lunch Costs

Presentation Abstract

Modeling and simulation is increasingly important in the practice of systems engineering, to the extent that Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) has an official INCOSE definition.  This introductory presentation has three parts, beginning with a motivation and definition of MBSE.  It then surveys several emerging simulation-based methodologies and tools for MBSE.  Finally, some inherent challenges to the practice of MBSE arising from the theory of complex systems are identified.  The entire presentation is given from the perspective of a simulationist, rather than that of a systems engineer, and is intended to expose the latter to the perspective of the former.

Speaker Bio

Mikel D. Petty is Director of the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis, Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Research Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.  Prior to joining UAH, he was Chief Scientist at Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center and Assistant Director at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training.  He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida in 1997.  Dr. Petty has worked in modeling and simulation research and education since 1990 in areas that include verification and validation methods, simulation interoperability and composability, human behavior modeling, and applications of theory to simulation.  He has published over 175 research papers and has been awarded over $15 million in research funding.  He served on a National Research Council committee on modeling and simulation, is a Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional, and is an editor of the journal SIMULATION.  At Old Dominion University he was the dissertation advisor to the first and third students in the world to receive Ph.D.s in Modeling and Simulation and is currently coordinator of UAHuntsville’s M&S degree program.