Interdisciplinary knowledge for education in modeling and simulation

1 What’s the Problem? Various attempts have been made by this Society to define the body of knowledge required to be a good simulationist. Indeed, only this conference uses the term simulationist, which was coined by???? in????. At one conference?pos??? the attempt was made to formulate the body by referring to one (out of date) version of the philosophy of science. Unfortunately, this ends up being a reductionist argument to engineering practice: the body of knowledge needed by simulation professionals is just what an engineer needs to know anyway. 1 The Body of Knowledge Birds of a Feather group met at SCSC ’01. The purpose was to codify the simulationist body of knowledge. While we had three very strong presentations, the group adjourned without choosing any. My approach here is to take a more fundamental view than?pos???. In using a reductionist criteria, the authors make the mistake of assuming that their take on the philosophy of science covers all instances of simulationists ’ work. Clearly, it does not: simulation of economic system