BERNARD P. ZEIGLER

Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation Director Department of Electrical &Computer Engineering Professor University of Arizona Tucson, AZ  85721 (520) 621‑2108 Email: zeigler@ece.arizona.edu

Bernard P. Zeigler is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation.  He is internationally known for his 1976 foundational text Theory of Modeling and Simulation, recently revised for a second edition (Academic Press, 2000), He has published numerous books and research publications on the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism. In 1995, he was named Fellow of the IEEE in recognition of his contributions to the theory of discrete event simulation.  In 2000 he received the McLeod Founder’s Award by the Society for Computer Simulation, its highest recognition, for his contributions to discrete event simulation.  In June 2002, he was elected President of the Society (recently, renamed The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International.)  In 2003, his autobiographical retrospective on the evolution of the theory of modeling and simulation appeared in the International Journal of General Systems. (Vol. 32 (3)).

Zeigler served on two National Research Council committees to recommend directions for information technology and simulation modeling in the 21st Century and a third NRC committee that developed a book of recommendations on simulation enhancements to systems acquisition and manufacturing. He has given numerous keynote talks, tutorials and short courses, and organized symposia and conferences that were the first to promote modeling and simulation fundamentals and theory and has been a participant in recent workshops on the science of simulation.

In 2001, with Hessam Sarjoughian and other faculty, he founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation dedicated to the development of modeling and simulation as a discipline of the future.

Zeigler is currently heading a project for the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) where he is leading the design of the future architecture for large distributed simulation events for the Joint Distributed Engineering Plant (JDEP). He is also developing DEVS-methodology approaches for testing mission thread end-to-end interoperability and combat effectiveness of  Defense Department acquisitions and transitions to the Global Information Grid with its Service Oriented Architecture (GIG/SOA). He received the JITC Golden Eagle Award for research and development of the Automated Test Case Generator, 2005 and the Award for Best M&S Development in the Cross-functional Area, 2004/2005, by the National Training Simulation Association, May 2, 2006.  He is preparing a book on the methodology of M&S-based dynamic data engineering to be published by Academic Press (2007).

He was appointed Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation, International (SCS), 2006.