1. CSE/ASU1ACIMS Hessam S. Sarjoughian Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling & Simulation Computer Science & Engineering Dept. Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA Dec. 5, 2003 First M&SNet Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, USA

2. CSE/ASU2ACIMS Some Topics of Interest u Software engineering u Large-scale, multi-level, multi-aspect modeling u Masters program in M&S

3. CSE/ASU3ACIMS Standish Group, 2002 Report Information Technology Projects in USA u Expenditure: $255 billion u Expense marked as wasted: $55 billion u 13,522 projects u All projects  Success rate: 34%  Failure rate: 15%  Challenged rate: 51% »51% have lower overrun (34% average) u 46% < 20% u The negative findings  82% increase in time overrun (63% in 2000)  52% of required features were delivered (67% in 2000)

4. CSE/ASU4ACIMS Building Software-Based Systems Team work Process Technologies Principles and Methods UML object-orientation incremental development communication Users & Developers requirements elicitations requirements specification verification & validation implementation and testing design specification

5. CSE/ASU5ACIMS Source: European Software Process Improvement Training Initiative, 1995

6. CSE/ASU6ACIMS Models Simulator Source System Experimental Frame simulation relation modeling relation Modeling & Simulation Models & Simulators MODEL Analyzer static/dynamic textual/graphical VIEW Mediator interaction with simulation models CONTROL Software Engineering Building M&S to Software Engineering

7. CSE/ASU7ACIMS Distributed/Parallel M&S Real World Simulator Distributed Simulation Model Experimental Frame specifies conditions under which the system is experimented with and observed Experimental Frame Models of subsurface physics Subsurface physics Subsurface physics Models of subsurface physics Validation and Verification combined simulated & basin system

8. CSE/ASU8ACIMS ACIMS Education and Tech Transfer Role u Online Masters of Engineering program in Modeling and Simulation  domain experts  access to professionals in national labs, …  Established relations with national organization u Knowledge Transfer  Industry