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Volume: 5, Issue: 7, Tue Oct  4 09:25:28 EDT 1988

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(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
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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




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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)



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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
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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
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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.





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