Hans-Joachim Bungartz: Professor of informatics and mathematics at TUM, chair of scientific computing; long-term experience in teaching for programs in informatics, mathematics, physics, and engineering; responsible of CSE graduate programs at TUM and Bavaria-wide.

Dirk Pflüger and Stefan Zimmer: are both members of the Chair of Simulation of Large Systems, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, at the University of Stuttgart; their teaching includes respective courses in the informatics and software engineering programs and within the cluster of excellence Simulation Technology.

Martin Buchholz: works at Realtime Technology AG (RTT AG) on distributed software systems for realtime visualization.

Covering a wide range of modeling-driven domains: decisions, traffic, dynamical systems, physics

Motivated by concrete relevant scenarios, but not application-bound

Looking at modeling and simulation as a general methodology for science and engineering fed by mathematics and informatics

Includes supplementary material: [...]

1 Introduction.- 2 The necessary instruments in brief.- Part I Playing - deciding - planning: A modeling warm-up.- 3 Game theory.- 4 Group decisions.- 5 Schedules.- 6 Wiener processes.- Part II Traffic on highways and data highways: A trip through the simulation pipeline.- 7 Macroscopic simulation of traffic.- 8 Microscopic simulation of traffic.- 9 Stochastic traffic simulations.- Part III Dynamic systems: Cause, effect and interaction.- 10 Population dynamics.- 11 Controllers.- 12 Chaos theory.- Part IV Physics on the computer: The switch to number crunchers.- 13 Molecular dynamics.- 14 Thermal conduction.- 15 Fluid mechanics.- 16 Global illumination in computer graphics.- Closing remarks.- Bibliography.- Index.