THE STATE OF THE ART IN CONTEXT
To empirically ground an investigation of their trajectories and potential overlap, we looked at each of the topics in the previous section in relation to M&S using the Web of Science3 database to map out the current academic peer-reviewed, published literature. This is one way to observe the evolution and intersection of M&S with changing and
emerging computational approaches, techniques, and advances. It is important to note that Web of Science does not capture all publications, nor does it cover gray literature or publications that are not printed in English. Data was retrieved between 2 – 23
Figure 1. Number of articles per queried topic using Web of Science (2000-2022) Web of Science indexes journals, conference proceedings, and other materials across areas of study. Keywords: quantum computing (QC), natural language processing (NLP), modeling and simulation (M&S), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data (BD). 3 4