This book/CD-ROM text package covers modeling and simulating both physical and conceptual systems using MATLAB and Simulink. It can serve as a primary text for a first course in modeling and simulation for juniors, seniors, and graduate students in engineering, manufacturing, business, or computer science. It can also be used in a second course for more advanced students in modeling and simulation. After an introduction to essentials of systems, the text gives step-by-step procedures for modeling different types of systems using techniques such as the graph-theoretic approach and interpretive structural modeling. Coverage then turns to the history of simulation and modern soft computing techniques for modeling nonlinear, ill-defined, and complex systems, such as artificial neural networks and fuzzy systems. Appendices offer detailed overviews of MATLAB and Simulink. A 10-page glossary is divided into four topical sections. The CD-ROM contains simulation code in MATLAB and Simulink. Chaturvedi is affiliated with Deemed University, India. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)