Advanced System Modelling and Simulation with Block Diagram Languages

Prolegomena
Modern CDSS Languages
Introduction: Block Languages and Analog/Hybrid Machines
Block Language Tectonics: A Resource Guide
Integration Algorithms and CDSS Languages
Specifying the Ideal Block Language
The Operating Environments
Review of Block Diagram Algebra and Applied Transfer Functions
A Summary of Principal Block Operations
Typical Block Manipulations
Making Block Models of Specialized Systems
How Block Languages Deal with Transfer Functions
Some Useful Transfer Function Simulators
Applied Partial Functions Expansion Techniques
The Languages
Introduction
ACSL®/GM
ESL
Extend®
MATRIXx®
SIMULINK®
System View™
TUTSIM® and TUTCAD®
VisSim®
Some Important Simulation Topics
Polynomial Modelling and Synthesis Techniques
Arbitrary Function Generation in CDSS Languages
Simulation of Discontinuities and Jump Phenomena
About Mirror Functions and Linearization
When Differentiation is Required
Synthesizing Macroblocks
When a Nonlinear Function Block Is Not Available
z-Blocks and z-Transforms in Simulation
Bondgraphs: A Brief Resource Guide
Difference Equations in Simulation
Stiff Systems
Digital Logic and Custom Hybrid Switching Devices
Relational Operators
A Few Useful Relay Blocks
Matrix-Based Languages
Benchmarks and Special Topics
Introduction
Comments on Benchmarks
PHYSBE: A Physiological Benchmark Model
Discrete Event Systems: A Clarification
Comment on System View's™ Linear System Token
MATLAB®
The Shifted-Origin Device
Phase Planes Revisited
Neural Networks and CDSS Languages
Algebraic Loops
Glossary
Bibliography
Language Vendors
Index