Criteria for Decomposing Systems Into Components in Modeling and Simulation: Lessons Learned with Military Simulations

Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 357-365

  Hofmann, Marko A ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

abstractions; causal dependency; combat simulation systems; criteria for decomposition; Driving forces of decomposition; hidden assumptions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACTIONS; CAUSAL DEPENDENCY; COMBAT SIMULATION SYSTEMS; CRITERIA-FOR-DECOMPOSITION; DRIVING FORCES-OF-DECOMPOSITION; HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 10244265969     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549704049876     Document Type: Article

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