Title
Automatic construction of Hierarchical Federations Architecture
Abstract
The High Level Architecture allows simulation components of various types to be joined together into a federation to create a common virtual environment. However with the increased complexity of simulations, not all user requirements can be satisfied by a flat federation. The requirement of selective information hiding naturally suggests a Hierarchical Federations Architecture (HFA) where federations are organized into hierarchies so that a federation appears as a federate in an upper level federation. In order to provide reusability and interoperability at the federation level, a federation should be able to participate in different super-federations without requiring code modification. We present an approach to automatically construct the HFA. We describe the information that must be provided by the participating user federations and how this is used to construct the Universal Object Model (UOM) used by the super-FOMs (the FOMs of super-federations). We show how the structure for selective information hiding is generated from the user information and how gateway federates are automatically constructed to support super-FOM independence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/DISRTA.2002.1166888
DS-RT
Keywords
Field
DocType
ability tosatisfy,virtual environment,interoperability,reusability,simulation components,selective information hiding,high level architecture,distributed simulations,data encapsulation,distributed object management,user requirements,automatic construction,digital simulation,universal object model,software reusability,hierarchical federations architecture,different discipline,computer architecture,satisfiability,computer simulation,information hiding,object model,computational modeling
Virtual machine,Interoperability,Computer science,Information hiding,Object model,User information,Real-time computing,Default gateway,User requirements document,High-level architecture,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1990
0-7695-1853-2
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.83
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. Cai171.20
G. Li262.18
S. J. Turner3797.57
Lee, B.S.43215.65
leibo liu5816116.95