摘要:The limitations of model-based support for engineering complex systems include limited capability to develop multifaceted models as well as their analysis with robust reliable simulation engines. Lack of such Modeling and Simulation (M&S) infrastructure leads to knowledge gaps in engineering such complex systems and these gaps appear as epistemological emergent behaviors. In response, an initiative is underway to bring Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) closer together with model-based simulation developments. M&S represents a core capability and is needed to address today’s complex, adaptive, systems of systems engineering challenges. This paper considers the problems raised by MBSE taken as a modeling activity without the support of full strength integrated simulation capability and the potential for, and possible forms of, closer integration between the two streams. An example of a system engineering application, an unmanned vehicle fleet providing emergency ambulance service, is examined as an application of the kind of multifaceted M&S methodology required to effectively deal with such systems.
关键词:modeling and simulation; discrete event system specification; DEVS; model-based system engineering; MBSE; internet of things; IoT; cyber physical systems; CPS; complex adaptive systems of systems modeling and simulation ; discrete event system specification ; DEVS ; model-based system engineering ; MBSE ; internet of things ; IoT ; cyber physical systems ; CPS ; complex adaptive systems of systems