This article pr esents a f ormalized co nceptual m odel f or a por tion of the Field Artillery (FA) domain. The structural part of the model identifies the entities in the FA domain along with their properties and associations. The behavioral part of the model d escribes the FA missions in t he l anguage of Li ve S equence Charts (LSCs). The conceptual model is constructed as a metamodel by using the GME (Generic Modeling Environment) toolkit. Once the FA metamodel is loaded, GME automatically provides a cu stomized env ironment t o model particular FA missions. The intended application is to use the FA metamodel as the source for defining model transformations targeting FA federation architectures. This work is also i ntended to help evaluate t he pow er and l imitations of ch art not ations for describing military tasks visually yet precisely.

This paper presents the automatic transformation of a Field Artillery Conceptual Data Model (FADM) into a High Level Architecture (HLA) Object Model Template (OMT) Model (HOM). It is part of a series of transformations from field artillery mission space to federation architecture to executable distributed simulation code. The approach followed in the course of this work adheres to the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) philosophy. The model transformation is carried out with the Graph Rewriting and Transformation (GReAT) tool and partly hand-coded in C++. Given a conceptual data model, a simulation object model is produced, tailored according to one of the three object class generation schemes, expounded in the paper.

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