Integrating heterogeneous distributed COTS discrete-event simulation packages: An emerging standards-based approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-122

  Taylor, Simon J E ^a   Wang, Xiaoguang ^b   Turner, Stephen John ^b   Low, Malcolm Y H ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; Distributed simulation; High level architecture; Interoperability; Standards

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEROPERABILITY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 30444456490     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.859167     Document Type: Article

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