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Composing simulations from XML-specified model components

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Adelinde M. UhrmacherAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 1083 - 1090

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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This paper is about the flexible composition of efficient simulation models. It presents the realization of a component framework that can be added as an additional layer on top of simulation systems. It builds upon platform independent specifications of components in XML to evaluate dependency relationships and parameters during composition. The process of composition is split up into four stages. Starting from XML documents component instances are created. These can be customized and arranged to form a composition. Finally, a composition is transformed to an executable simulation model. The first three stages are general applicable to simulation systems; the last one depends on the Parallel DEVS formalism and the simulation system James II.

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

December 2006

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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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Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Zeigler BSeo CCoop RKim DWainer GMosterman PBarros FZacharewicz G(2013)Creating suites of models with system entity structureProceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling & Simulation - DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium10.5555/2499634.2499666(1-8)Online publication date: 7-Apr-2013
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