Part I
Modeling and Simulation of Systems of Systems
DEVS Integrated Development Environments
System Entity Structure Basics
DEVS Natural Language Models and Elaborations
Specialization and Pruning
Aspects and Multi-Aspects
Managing Inheritance in Pruning
Automated and Rule-Based Pruning
Part II
DEVS Simulation Protocol
Dynamic Structure: Agent Modeling and Publish/Subscribe
Interest-Based Information Exchange: Mappings and Models
Languages for Constructing DEVS Models
Part III
Flexible Modeling Support Environments
Service-Based Software Systems
Cloud System Simulation Modeling
Model Repositories for Systems of Systems
Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems
Activity-Based Implementations of Systems of Systems
About the Author: Dr. Bernard P. Zeigler is Emeritus Professor and Co-Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation (ACIMS), at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He is also Chief Scientist at RTSync, Rockville, MD, USA.
Dr. Hessam S. Sarjoughian is Associate Professor and Co-Director of ACIMS at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
The chapter Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems is written by Raphaël Duboz and Jean-Christophe Soulié of CIRAD (the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development), France.