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Graduate Education Programs in Defense Modeling and Simulation at the Naval Postgraduate School
Educating warfighters to design, build and manage tomorrow's modeling and simulation solutions
Overview
The Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Academic Program of the Naval Postgraduate School provides the MS and PhD student both fundamental and specialized courses in applied visual simulation technology and the application of quantitative analyses to human-computer interaction in simulation technology.
The MS program is a two-year, eight-quarter program whose core courses cover the fundamentals of computer science, human-computer interaction, and data analysis. These topics include object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, virtual world and simulation systems, probability, statistics, stochastic modeling, data analysis, management and aquisition, human-performance evaluation and human-behavior modeling.
Specialization by the MS student is accomplished by completing three-course concentration blocks providing depth in a selected area.
Once the MOVES MS degree program core courses have been taken and while the specialization courses are underway, the final step in the MS degree is the completion of a written thesis. This thesis is conducted on a research problem avised by a MOVES Academic Faculty member.
The MOVES Academic Program also has a program leading to the degree Doctor of Philosophy. Areas of special strength amonst the MOVES Academic Faculty are networked virtual environments, adaptable software agents, human factors in virtual environments, physically based modeling for virtual environments, modeling human and organizational behavior, discrete-event systems modeling, data and model visualization, and combat modeling.