Bernard P Zeigler Editor & Author

Bernard P. Zeigler, is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona and co-director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation. He is the author of numerous books and publications, a Fellow of the IEEE, and of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. 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). As Technical Director for an IT company, Phillip Hammonds’ duties include overall technical direction of several C4ISR engineering programs for national agencies and military service organizations. In particular, Dr. Hammonds focuses on modeling and simulation, and the rigorous data, metadata and software engineering necessary to create and test multi-source, interoperable intelligence, and command and control products and services in the expanding Net Centric environment. Dr. Hammonds received his PhD and Master's Degrees from the University of Arizona; his dissertation focused on natural language directives processing and analysis. He has published articles and software in the areas of modeling and simulation, high-performance computing analysis, data engineering, and Slavic linguistics.