Instructor: Gabriel A. Wainer (further information about the course can be obtained if you send an e-mail to the instructor ).

The main goal of this course is to let the students understand recent advances in modelling and simulation methodologies. The idea is to build complex multicomponent systems, attacking the complexity of the systems. We are interested in the Software Engineering aspects when developing simulation models, such us how to achieve good development performance, reduce testing time and improve the development process. We are also interested in showing recent techniques to achieve improved execution performance through parallel execution of the simulation models.

Some of the topics to be covered include:

• Discrete Event Simulation.
• The DEVS formalism.
• Modelling physical systems with Cell-DEVS.
• Parallel/distributed techniques simulation.