Tutorial on the engineering principles of combat modeling and distributed simulation

This advanced tutorial introduces the engineering principles of combat modeling and distributed simulation. It starts with the historical context and introduces terms and definitions as well as guidelines of interest in this domain. The combat modeling section introduces the main concepts for modeling of the environment, movement, effects, sensing, communications, and decision making. The distributed simulation section focuses on the challenges of current simulation interoperability standards that support dealing with them. Overall, the tutorial shall introduce the scholar to the operational view (what needs to be modeled), the conceptual view (how to do combat modeling), and the technical view (how to conduct distributed simulation).