Modeling and Simulation

1 Introduction.- 2 The necessary instruments in brief.- Part I Playing – deciding – planning: A modeling warm-up.- 3 Game theory.- 4 Group decisions.- 5 Schedules.- 6 Wiener processes.- Part II Traffic on highways and data highways: A trip through the simulation pipeline.- 7 Macroscopic simulation of traffic.- 8 Microscopic simulation of traffic.- 9 Stochastic traffic simulations.- Part III Dynamic systems: Cause, effect and interaction.- 10 Population dynamics.- 11 Controllers.- 12 Chaos theory.- Part IV Physics on the computer: The switch to number crunchers.- 13 Molecular dynamics.- 14 Thermal conduction.- 15 Fluid mechanics.- 16 Global illumination in computer graphics.- Closing remarks.- Bibliography.- Index.