Management scientists are human
Management Science
Next century challenges: scalable coordination in sensor networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The case for reflective middleware
Communications of the ACM - Adaptive middleware
Utility-based decision-making in wireless sensor networks
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An information-theoretical framework for modeling component-based systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
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As the internet continually eliminates geographic boundaries, the concept of doing business within a single country is giving way to companies focusing on competing in an international marketplace. As modelling and simulation professionals, we have the most unique opportunities to become true global visionaries and be highly effective in providing fundamental opportunities that all our employers expect from our students. The future of the various professions in the information technology (IT) business relies greatly on innovative modelling and simulation practices that not merely enhance our ability to graduate good application programmers - these skills have now become commodities that can be either outsourced or automated. We are now more able to graduate students who are comfortable with the theory, build their higher-order thinking (HOT) skills and blend these with the necessary practice through the understanding of business and cultural issues involved; while being able to effectively share, communicate, articulate and advance their ideas for innovative products and solutions. Since good educational preparation is one of the primary means for us to prepare our future workforce; modelling and simulation as an oft-repeated, practice-driven learnt skill can help our students gain the necessary HOT skills to compete globally for highly skilled technology based jobs. We focus in this paper on the models and provide a model for educational innovation using modelling and simulation as a vehicle for software development. We illustrate this with a simple example of designing well co-ordinated software systems. Using a simple Petri net based-approach we develop a model-based, co-ordination-focused, requirements-driven guidelines for co-ordinated software design and testing.