Paper Info
Title
Distributed supply chain simulation in a DEVS/CORBA execution environment
Abstract
The emerging electronic commerce and rapidly changing business environments place strong requirements on a next-generation supply-chain analyzer to simulate the flow of goods through the entire supply chain in a timely manner. Such requirements include scalable and efficient model execution and support for flexible future extensibility based on an open industry standard. This paper presents design considerations for a supply chain modeling and simulation environment to execute in a parallel and distributed manner on a DEVS/CORBA run time infrastructure. We recall that DEVS (Discrete Event System Specification) is a sound formal modeling and simulation framework based on generic dynamic systems concepts that can integrate into a parallel and distributed run time infrastructure. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an open standard that is rapidly gaining universal business acceptance. It can be employed as middleware to support a heterogeneous, network- centric, distributed computing environment that includes modeling and simulation as well as other business objects. Implementing a distributed supply chain simulator in a DEVS/CORBA execution environment not only may significantly improve execution speed but also may provide advanced supply chain model development capability based on the DEVS modeling and simulation framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/324898.325274
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
business data processing,client-server systems,discrete event simulation,distributed object management,CORBA,Common Object Request Broker Architecture,DEVS,Discrete Event System Specification,business environments,distributed run time infrastructure,distributed supply chain simulation,electronic commerce,execution speed,middleware,model execution,open industry standard,parallel run time infrastructure
Middleware,Distributed Computing Environment,Computer science,Common Object Request Broker Architecture,Business object,DEVS,Supply chain,Distributed computing,Scalability,Discrete event simulation
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
0-7803-5780-9
26
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.71
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zeigler, B.P.111613.27
Doohwan Kim29312.02