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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 covers the fundamentals of computer science, human-computer interaction, and data analysis. These topics include object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, computer communications and networks, computer graphics, virtual worlds and simulation systems, probability, statistics, stochastic modeling, data analysis, human-performance evaluation and human-behavior modeling.

Specialization by the MS student is accomplished by completing course blocks providing depth in a selected area. There are eight blocks available of which the student must select three.

Once the MOVES 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 faculty member.

MOVES has a program leading to the degree Doctor of Philosophy. Areas of special strength in the group 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.

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