Abstract

For reasons of increasing productivity, efficiency, and decreasing time and cost for complex system innova-tions, modelling and simulation (M&S) becomes a standard “tool” for a huge variety of applications. The demand for controlling and demonstrating the quality of a model and its applications by introducing appro-priate quality measures, techniques, and tools is obvious. Consequently, a variety of structured and even standardized processes for development of modelling and simulation (M&S) applications as well as for verification and validation (V&V) has been proposed. All of them require, however, due to different characteristics of organisation structures and project environments, some kind of adaptation or tailoring prior to application. This paper describes a multistage approach for tailoring of an M&S project in compliance with the principles of the V-Modell XT, which is considered as the German standard IT development process obligatory for federal engineering projects. Along with the integration of the M&S-specific components into the V-Modell, this tailoring approach enables the project-specific selection of essential products, documents and activities for developing M&S applications and conducting their V&V according to specified cost, time and application constraints.