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Ethics is a branch of philosophy that studies moral problems. This chapter of the SCS M&S Body of Knowledge starts with a broader look at how ethics are influencing technical disciplines in general before looking at ethics for computer simulation in more detail. It devotes a section on ethics for simulationists and analysts, as they often provide guidance for decision makers with significant consequences. The chapter concludes with the simulationists code of ethics.

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  1. High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart, Germany

    Nico Formanek

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

    Juan Manuel Durán

  3. The RAND Corporation and the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, USA

    Paul K. Davis

  4. The MITRE Corporation, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Andreas Tolk

  5. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Tuncer Ören

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  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Bernard P. Zeigler

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Formanek, N., Durán, J.M., Davis, P.K., Tolk, A., Ören, T. (2023). Ethics. In: Ören, T., Zeigler, B.P., Tolk, A. (eds) Body of Knowledge for Modeling and Simulation. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11085-6_8

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