1	SimSummit Context Briefing W. Waite
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3	‘Precipitating’ the M&S Profession, industry, and Marketplace Presentation to SimSummit 18 July 2002 W. F. Waite Chairman, SimSummit Executive Committee
4	OUTLINE INTRODUCTION Purpose of the Briefing Purpose of the Meeting Content of the Briefing SIMSUMMIT CONTEXT SIMSUMMIT CONCEPT CHARGE TO DELEGATES
5	OUTLINE INTRODUCTION SIMSUMMIT CONTEXT SimSummit as Industrial Development Event State of M&S Perceptions, Opportunities, and Intentions SIMSUMMIT CONCEPT CHARGE TO DELEGATES
6	SimSummit Context
7	Definitions We propose the broadest reasonable definitions of M&S:
8	Scope of Deliberations M&S Technology Standards, Tools, Techniques Topics (Conceptual Modeling, VV&A, etc.) Issues (Credibility, Body of Knowledge, etc.)… M&S Application Types of Utility, Value Relevance of Applicability Ubiquity of Application… M&S Business Practice Professional Development, Code-of-Ethics Economics, Markets, Business Process Organizational Roles and Relationships…
9	The good news - Simulation Technology is alive and well… Pervasive Diverse Versatile Powerful Valuable Cost-Effective
10	However…Perceived Immaturity of M&S Profession, Industry, Marketplace Body-of-Knowledge Specification Professional Development Infrastructure Standard Practices / Codes-of-Ethics Personal / Institutional Certification Industrial Recognition / Administrative Mechanisms / Popular Literature Application-Domain Intervisibility / Interoperability Well-Defined Market (products / services / buyers / sellers / market-makers, etc.)
11	More good news… “… the times, they are a ‘changin’”
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13	… meanwhile … Our conduct of M&S ‘business’ - e.g. investment and recovery by both buyers and sellers of M&S products and services - is inhibited by the circumstances of an ‘immature’ industry And we’re not gonna take it anymore !
14	Manifesto “A specter is haunting Europe. Workers of the world unite!” … no, no, that’s not it … “These are the times that try men’s souls.” … no, that’s not it either …. “Modeling and Simulation is a technology ‘whose time has come’”.
15	Precipitation of the M&S Profession, Industry, and Market
16	SimSummit Intention ASSUMPTION: The ‘precipitation’ or ‘coming out’ of the M&S Profession / Industry / Marketplace can be understood, taught, learned, and consequently influenced. ASSERTION: We shall do so! … after all … “How many things … are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?”
17	Hang Together or Hang Separately