'Models that include a notion of time are ubiquitous in disciplines such as the natural sciences, engineering, philosophy, and linguistics, but in computing the abstractions provided by the traditional models are problematic and the discipline has spawned many novel models. This…
This book details the results of several decades of research on developing, analyzing, and applying time models to computing and engineering. Each chapter is supplemented with detailed bibliographic remarks and exercises of varying difficulty and scope. "Models that include a n…
Each of the book’s six parts focuses on a different aspect of conceptual modeling for simulation. The first section discusses the purpose and requirements of a conceptual model. The next set of chapters provides frameworks and tools for conceptual modeling. The book then describ…