ABSTRACT
MATLAB® (short for matrix laboratory) is a popular software package in many different science and engineering disciplines. It has a number of features that make it a good package for modeling and simulation. There are a large number of toolboxes available for license, as well as a number of community-provided toolboxes to solve common problems. In addition, as a fourth-generation programming language focused on numerical computing the language has built-in features that make it easy to work with vectors and matrices, allowing modelers to concentrate on their models, and not on implementing the details of a matrix operation.
