History of Simulation

The chapter on history of simulation is foundational contribution to the SCS M&S Body of Knowledge that reviews the development of the discipline. The development of continuous and event-oriented simulation with the support of accompanying languages is the topic of one section. How simulation evolved to support experiments and experimentation is another facet of history. Finally, the evolution of simulation in analysis to support real-world decision making is evaluated in more detail. The chapter closes with a tabular view on previous studies on a M&S BoK, going back twenty years.