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Title | ||
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Integrating heterogeneous distributed COTS discrete-event simulation packages: an emerging standards-based approach |
Abstract | ||
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This paper reports on the progress made toward the emergence of standards to support the integration of heterogeneous discrete-event simulations (DESs) created in specialist support tools called commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) discrete-event simulation packages (CSPs). The general standard for heterogeneous integration in this area has been developed from research in distributed simulation and is the IEEE 1516 standard The High Level Architecture (HLA). However, the specific needs of heterogeneous CSP integration require that the HLA is augmented by additional complementary standards. These are the suite of CSP interoperability (CSPI) standards being developed under the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO-http://www.sisostds.org) by the CSPI Product Development Group (CSPI-PDG). The suite consists of several interoperability reference models (IRMs) that outline different integration needs of CSPI, interoperability frameworks (IFs) that define the HLA-based solution to each IRM, appropriate data exchange representations to specify the data exchanged in an IF, and benchmarks termed CSP emulators (CSPEs). This paper contributes to the development of the Type I IF that is intended to represent the HLA-based solution to the problem outlined by the Type I IRM (asynchronous entity passing) by developing the entity transfer specification (ETS) data exchange representation. The use of the ETS in an illustrative case study implemented using a prototype CSPE is shown. This case study also allows us to highlight the importance of event granularity and lookahead in the performance and development of the Type I IF, and to discuss possible methods to automate the capture of appropriate values of lookahead. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.859167 | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
csp interoperability,cots discrete-event simulation package,data exchange representation,standards.,distributed simula- tion,standards-based approach,outline different integration need,interoperability,heterogeneous integration,index terms—discrete-event simulation,csp emulators,type i irm,high level architecture,heterogeneous csp integration,cspi product development group,appropriate data exchange representation,hla-based solution,electronic data interchange,data exchange,indexing terms,open systems,distributed programming,discrete event simulation,reference model,product development | Data exchange,Electronic data interchange,Interoperability,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,New product development,Asynchronous communication,Software engineering,Standards organization,Machine learning,Embedded system,Discrete event simulation,High-level architecture | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
36 | 1 | 1083-4427 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
27 | 2.10 | 27 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| S. J.E. Taylor | 1 | 551 | 67.71 |
| Xiaoguang Wang | 2 | 32 | 2.86 |
| S. J. Turner | 3 | 79 | 7.57 |
| M. Y.H. Low | 4 | 31 | 2.55 |