| TOPIC – [Name the topic. How is
the subject of this program denoted?] This program plan addresses the “Modeling and
Simulation (M&S) Body-of-Knowledge (BOK) Information
Architecture (IA) Proof-of-Principle (POP) Development
Program”.
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY – [Summarize in a single paragraph
the full text of the Program proposal. Emphasize
considerations or decisions needing to be made.]
This program is intended to guide the development
of a draft or prototype of the M&S body of knowledge
index. Execution of this plan will demonstrate the
development of a provisional M&S BOK guide in
a collaborative environment with participation from
a wide range of constituencies across the M&S
community-of-practice. The form of the resulting
data product sill serve as a prototype for investment
in a comprehensive, authoritative, persistent, extensible
and useful BOK index. The contents of the resulting
M&S BOK index product will serve to support immediate
users of the BOK in cultivating the M&S community-of-practice,
while providing a basis for evaluation and evocation
of other user needs and information product requirements
for future M&S BOK product builds.
The eventual objective (outside the scope of this
prototyping program) is, clearly, a published, annotated
index of M&S BOK topics, indicating also the
relationships among those topics as well as the relationships
between those topics and others typically appreciated
to be members of the bodies-of-knowledge of allied
disciplines. The desired objective M&S BOK index
must be accessible, comprehensive, authoritative,
and acceptable to all the significant stakeholders
of the M&S community-of-practice. It must be
maintained consistent with the evolution of M&S
practice and with the need to guarantee its usefulness
for purposes indicated above. This program is conceived
as a first, necessary step to achieving that long-term
objective.
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| INTRODUCTION – [Introduce
the Program in such a way that all the relevant information
necessary and
sufficient to appreciate its potential significance and
nature in context of the objective business development
environment is indicated to the reader. Include, as appropriate,
comments relevant to each of the sub-headings that follow.] The
nature of background, present circumstances, and opportunities
relevant to the development of
the M&S
BOK index are discussed briefly here – providing
de facto justification of the subject Program.
• BACKGROUND – [Describe
the historical perspective of the Program, indicating
what past events and circumstances bear on the definition
of the Program and upon the decision to execute the
Program.]
The
good news is that Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
is alive and well. Based on decades of invention, practice,
and success, and the empowering effects of computational
capacity: modeling and simulation technology is pervasive
in its application; it is diverse in its implementation:
it is versatile in its employment: it is powerful in
its effect: it is valuable in its use; and it is generally
cost-effective in use in-concert-with or in-lieu-of
other techniques.
•
CIRCUMSTANCES – [Introduce significant present
factors that bear upon the definition or the decision
to execute the Program.]
On
the other hand, … the case may be made that
as a profession, an industry, and a marketplace, modeling
and simulation is fundamentally immature. While there
exists a recently established Code-of-Ethics for the
M&S Profession / Industry, there is no generally
accepted specification of the Body-of-Knowledge. There
are no agreed-upon disciplinary curricula for higher
education of simulation professionals. Nor are there
any acknowledged standards for professional education
and training of simulation professionals. There is
no comprehensively relevant and widely recognized form
of professional certification. (Read
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