Summary

The result of a symposium sponsored by the IMACS Technical Committee of Control Systems and Robotics, this book contains research papers on various theoretical and practical aspects of system modelling and simulation. The Applications'' section looks at a wide variety of subjects, including papers such as Ship Design Parameters' Optimization Computer System'', Simulation of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Process as a Moving Boundary Problem'' and A Generalized Model to Simulate Urgent Hospital Departments'', to name three at random.