Guidelines for commercial off-the-shelf Simulation Package interoperability

Taylor, Simon J. E.; Turner, Mark D.; Strassburger,

doi:10.1109/wsc.2008.4736068

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“…DSEEP uses seven-step process to guide the development of the simulation system as described : In industrial domain, visual interactive modeling environments are widely used. Taylor et al (2008) find that, in DS domain, HLA is used a lot and the absence of graphical language can be problematic. Indeed, it can be easy to lose track regarding exactly what is wanted to occur between interoperating models.…”

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BPMN Modeling for HLA based simulation and visualization

Gorecki

Bouanan

Zacharewicz

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Model-Driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering (Mod4Sim 2018)

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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is attempting to tackle more and more complex systems, which makes its design highly challenging. Complex systems' M&S requires the consideration of several simultaneous points of view and involve skills from different scientific and technical fields. Distributed Simulation domain answers the question of coupling and running together heterogeneous components, e.g. IEEE 1516-2010 -High Level Architecture is one of the most used standard. However, none provides any official or at least recognized user-friendly (e.g. graphical) language to specify distributed simulation desired behavior. Due to its capacity to represent behavior of processes, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard could be an interesting solution for defining HLA execution scenario within a Model Driven Architecture approach. This paper aims to support the modeling phase of the HLA execution process in order to explicitly design the desired steps of orchestration between distributed HLA federates through the interpretation of a business process diagram.

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“…Indeed, it can be easy to lose track regarding exactly what is wanted to occur between interoperating models. In that paper, the authors offered a set of interoperability reference models which can be used as guidelines to simplify interoperability process (Taylor, Turner, and Strassburger 2008).…”

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BPMN Modeling for HLA based simulation and visualization

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“…To standardise this approach, an international standardisation group, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization's COTS Simulation Package Interoperability Product Development Group (CSPI PDG) <http://www.sisostds.org/>, have produced a set of draft standards in this area and are described initially in Taylor et al (2006b). The distributed approach discussed in this advanced tutorial is based on the standards being developed by the CSPI PDG and can be found in full in Taylor, Turner, and Strassburger (2008).…”

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“…What is certain is that the technology is no longer a barrier and a future where packages and models can be connected together in a "plug & play" manner in such a way to exploit the resources of a Grid is now entirely feasible. To reiterate the examples described in Taylor, Turner and Strassburger (2008), CSPI will make possible the following exciting modeling and simulation scenarios:…”

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Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Simulation Package interoperability: Issues and futures

Taylor¹,

Mustafee²,

Turner³

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)

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Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Simulation Packages (CSPs) are widely used in industry to simulate discrete-event models. Interoperability of CSPs requires the use of distributed simulation techniques. Literature presents us with many examples of achieving CSP interoperability using bespoke solutions. However, for the wider adoption of CSP-based distributed simulation it is essential that, first and foremost, a standard for CSP interoperability be created, and secondly, these standards are adhered to by the CSP vendors. This advanced tutorial is on an emerging standard relating to CSP interoperability. It gives an overview of this standard and presents case studies that implement some of the proposed standards. Furthermore, interoperability is discussed in relation to large and complex models developed using CSPs that require large amount of computing resources. It is hoped that this tutorial will inform the simulation community of the issues associated with CSP interoperability, the importance of these standards and its future. INTRODUCTIONIn Operational Research & Management Science (ORMS), Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) has been used to analyze production and logistics problems in many areas such as commerce, defense, health, manufacturing and logistics for many years (Law, 2007). The first DES languages appeared in the late 1950s. These evolved during the 1960s and 1970s. In the context of simulation practice in industry, although programming languages may be used to build simulations in certain circumstances, models are generally created using commercially available simulation packages (Robinson 2005). With the arrival of the IBM PC, the 1980s saw the rise of Visual Interactive Modeling Systems (VIMS) that allowed simulation modelers to visually create and simulate discrete-event models. VIMS enable users to create models in a graphical environment through an interactive "click-and-drag" selection of pre-defined simulation objects (entry points, queues, workstations, resources, etc.) and link them together to represent the underlying logical interactions between the entities they represent (Pidd 2004). These have matured into the Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Simulation Packages (CSPs) that are very familiar to ORMS practitioners today. They include Arena™ (Rockwell automation), Anylogic™ (XJ technologies), Flexsim™ (Flexsim Software Products, Inc.), Simul8™ (Simul8 corporation), Witness™ (Lanner group), etc. Each has a wide range of functionality including visual model building, simulation run support, animation, optimization and virtual reality. Some have their own dedicated programming language and all are able to be linked to other COTS software (such as Microsoft Excel). However, the vast majority of these packages do not support CSP package interoperability. In the context of the CSPs, interoperability can be seen from two perspectives -homogenous CSP interoperability (interoperability between models developed using identical CSPs) and heterogeneous CSP interoperability (interoperability between m...

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“…O High-Level Architecture (HLA) [13,14] é uma arquitetura para reutilização e interoperabilidade de simulações [15]. Baseado no Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) [16] Toda a interação do federado com a federação, e outros federados, é realizada por meio dos seguintes serviços fornecidos pelo RTI.…”

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Guidelines for commercial off-the-shelf Simulation Package interoperability

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BPMN Modeling for HLA based simulation and visualization

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Guidelines for commercial off-the-shelf Simulation Package interoperability

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BPMN Modeling for HLA based simulation and visualization

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