Modelling and Simulation Methodologies, Techniques and Applications: a State of the Art Overview

The behaviour of real-world systems is usually affected by a wide range of factors. The ways in which such factors interact and the stochastic nature of their evolution over the time increase the complexity of many real-world systems up to critical levels, where the use of ad-hoc methodologies, techniques, applications and tools is the only way to tackle problems and succeed in identifying proper and optimal solutions.