MSCIAAS 2016 - Modeling and Simulation of Complexity in Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSCIAAS)

Heterogeneous systems are the norm today. A system deployed in a netcentric environment eventually becomes a part of a system of systems (SoS). This makes design, analysis and testing for the system hand a complex endeavor in itself. Testing in isolation is not the same as a real-system operation, since the system’s behavior is also determined by the input, which evolves from the environment. This exact factor is difficult to predict, due to an ever-increasing level of autonomy.
Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) frameworks are required in order to facilitate SoS design, development, testing, and integration. In more particular, these frameworks have to provide methods to deal with intelligent, emergent, and adaptive behavior as well as autonomy.
The subject of emergent behavior and M&S of emergent behaviors takes the center-stage in such systems as it is unknown how a particular system responds in the face of emergent behavior arising out of interactions with other systems. Intelligent behavior is also defined as an emergent property in some complex systems. Consequently, systems that respond and adapt to such behaviors may be called intelligent systems as well.