Artificial intelligence and simulation (tutorial)

Some of the major concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) are presented and the author illustrates their applicability to simulation using examples drawn from recent knowledge-based simulation research. He focuses on the present state of the art, current problems and limitations, and future directions and possibilities. It is pointed out that the major impact of AI research on simulation is to encourage the use of additional kinds of modeling based on inferencing, reasoning, search methods; and representations that have been developed in AI. This natural extension of simulation can produce behavioral models that answer questions beyond `what-if?´. The result is sometimes referred to as knowledge-based simulation