Megatrends Driving Embedded Multicore Innovation

Summary form only given. It has been said that any good idea takes about 25 years to be widely adopted by industry. Simulation modeling was adapted to software development projects and processes in the early late 80s and 90s with the seminal work of Abdel-Hamid and Madnick [1] in applying Systems Dynamics to software project management, as well as the work of Kellner [2] and Raffo [3] in adapting State-based and Discrete Event Simulation models to software development. Using the 25 year metric above, Process Simulation will soon come of age - but where's the party? Why has Process Simulation not been widely adopted as other software engineering best practices such as inspections or cost estimation?