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•Like other industries before ours - previous
technology-enabled professions and enterprise domains, such as: electrical
engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, etc. – we are
experiencing the typical syndrome of (apparent) lack of critical mass
of an emerging market. Significantly,
that was then and this is now, and it is we who are
struggling with the inefficiencies pursuant to the immaturity of the modeling
and simulation industry.
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TECHNOLOGY:
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•Without the appreciable presence of an
identifiable professional cadre and industrial constituency, investment-in
and promulgation-of simulation technology is necessarily fragmented and
particular.
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PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT:
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•Without shared perception of the body of
knowledge and code of ethics,
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•… there can be no recognition of M&S
as profession / industry and
consequently, no self perception of cadre - We don’t know we are a profession
with interests in common.
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•Further, an appreciation of how simulation
technology competencies relate to work-force performance capabilities is
impossible. The result is only an
implicit job-description for professionals with modeling and simulation
roles.
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•Together with only implicit indications of
employer functional proficiency requirements, academic departments find it
difficult (or unproductive) to develop curricula for the simulation
profession.
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