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Engineering ab initio dynamic interoperability and composability via agent-mediated introspective simulation

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Andreas TolkAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

Pages 1075 - 1182

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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Complex software intensive simulation systems must respond to changing technology, environments, and requirements. Hence, dynamic extensibility and adaptability is a significant concern in an application domain. However, existing interoperability and composability solutions are limited in dealing with (1) dynamically evolving content needs of existing simulations and (2) run-time inclusion of new components into a simulation system. Simulations that are dynamically extensible, while being interoperable require principled designs that facilitate engineering extensibility, interoperability, and composability in the first place. We propose and examine the utility of a strategy based on an agent-mediated meta-simulation architecture.

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Tolk ADiallo SYücesan E(2010)Using a formal approach to simulation interoperability to specify languages for ambassador agentsProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2433508.2433550(359-370)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2433508.2433550
Tolk ADiallo STurnitsa CWainer G(2007)Model-based data engineeringProceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference10.5555/1357910.1358084(1112-1119)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1357910.1358084
Yilmaz LLim ABowen SÖren TTew J(2007)Requirements and design principles for multisimulation with multiresolution, multistage multimodelsProceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come10.5555/1351542.1351691(823-832)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1351542.1351691

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

2429 pages

ISBN:1424405017

Editors:
L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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INFORMS-CS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences-College on Simulation

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Tolk ADiallo SYücesan E(2010)Using a formal approach to simulation interoperability to specify languages for ambassador agentsProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2433508.2433550(359-370)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2433508.2433550
Tolk ADiallo STurnitsa CWainer G(2007)Model-based data engineeringProceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference10.5555/1357910.1358084(1112-1119)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1357910.1358084
Yilmaz LLim ABowen SÖren TTew J(2007)Requirements and design principles for multisimulation with multiresolution, multistage multimodelsProceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come10.5555/1351542.1351691(823-832)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1351542.1351691

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