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Major market trends
are driving manufacturing from mass production to mass customization.
Manufacturing enterprises could follow a virtual manufacturing operation
composed of three modules: an agent architecture that decomposes the system
to address both information modularity and the physical realities of
manufacturing; a simulator and an infrastructure to support the
implementation of the agents.
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Exploration,
discovery-based and learning by doing are valuable methods of learning which
give a learner the feeling of involvement. Learning how to build models is
best done by actually building models.
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Various military
training applications are the bulk of training environments that are
migrating to the web.
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There was a lot of
use of simulation in the military domain, as it could be seen in the previous
slides. A web-based system called ASTAR (The Army Standards Repository
System) was developed by the Army Model and Simulation Office to enhance the
armys decentralized, consensus based standards development process. A web
based tool facilitates the Standards Development Process.
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Large scale computer
simulations can take days to run and produce massive amounts of output. An
example of a scientific simulation application is the Weather Scenario
Generator intended to mine a very large array of environmental data and
provide results to a user at interactive speed.
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Web based simulation
of autonomous software agents is another example of web based environments
used to explore the potential of the web and new software technologies.
Another example is the problem of controlling crowds in public places.
Simulations can be used to model these problems.
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(Kuljis et. Al.,
2000)
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