Our
Mission
Simulation Team is an Excellence Network on Modeling and Simulation operating worldwide and involving Top Institutions and Entities in the Sector of M&S.
M&S (Modeling and Simulation) is a Strategic Science devoted to re-create and execute the reality by using models to support experimentation, design,
engineering, training, capacity assessment, ect.
So M&S represents the set of activities' of planning, design, development, implementation, verification,
validation and accreditation of Models and Simulators and it is assumed to consider mainly M&S working on
Computer Systems and Cloud Solutions.
Simulation Team aims to promote R&D of Innovative Solutions in
the field of Modeling & Simulation and to develop Techniques,
Methodologies, Integrated Systems operating in this Area.
Simulation Team supports the promotion of Technical and Scientific Events and dissemination of Initiatives for M&S.
Modeling is the creation of Conceptual Representations of Real Systems using
models that allow the study and reproduction through the development of Simulators (i.e. for
example by programming languages on computers).
We define Simulation as the reproduction of Reality 'through the use of Models, usually
operating on Computers; Simulation allows you to build "virtual" environments on which
to reproduce the evolution of the Model of the Real System under specific consideration, boundary conditions, going to
define Scenarios and Targeted Experiments.
Simulation has many different Natures and Pardigms, and there are many definitions for the different
types. In scientific world main two categories have been for long time Continuous and Discrete Simulation and new
Paradigms such as MS2G (Modeling, interoperable Simulation & Serious Games), MSaaS (Modeling & Simulation as a Service), interoperable,
Hardware in the Loop, Software in the Loop, Man in the Loop, etc.
In addition a classification methodology, used mostly in defense, is based on the split of simulations into three
main categories: Live, Virtual and Constructive and on their combinations (e.g. LVC). In this framework
the synthetic definitions commonly used are following. We define as Live Simulation the case in which real people are working on real systems (within a simulated context).
Vice versa, the Virtual Simulation is the case in which real people operate virtual systems. Finally Constructive Simulation is defined as the case in which people
are simulated by agents operating on virtual systems.
