XML Representation of System Entity Structure for Distributed Modeling Simulation

Abstract:

Distributed simulation refers to the execution of a complex model on geographically dispersed simulators, and it can increase the speed of a simulation and eventually decrease the simulation execution time. The distributed simulation enables models to be executed in physically distributed position. The system entity structure (SES) is used to represent the structural relation of simulation models and there are several SES’s XML representation methods. To make use of the SES in a distributed simulation environment, the revision of existing XML representation is needed. In this paper, we propose revised XML representation for loading models dynamically in the distributed simulation environment. A template of XML representation is defined to meet a number of modeling requirements, and it shows the specific information of model’s hierarchy and coupling. Each simulator’s model loader analyzes the XML-based SES representations and loads information of a model dynamically. We validate our method using a coupled model example.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 488-489)
• Pages: 892-897
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.488-489.892
• Online since: March 2012
• Authors: Dal Nim Choi, Jin Myoung Kim, Won Tae Kim, Hyung Jong Kim
• Keywords: Distributed Simulation, System Entity Structure, XML Representation

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