Model-Integrated Development of Field Artillery Federation Object Model

Abstract

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.

Model Based Approach to the Federation Object Model Independence Problem

“…Consequently it is also seen unrealistic to standardize on a single middleware platform. As MDSD become popular in Software Development world, some attempts to apply this approach through MDA to HLA compliant distributed simulations has been made like [31], [32], [33], [34] to show the benefits of employing this approach.…”

“…31 shows an example screenshot of this federate.The upper part of federate contains similar information to previous federates, so they are not repeated here. The lower part contains federate specific capabilities.…”