Simulation-based Approaches for Systems Engineering
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.