Authors:
Umut Durak
1
;
Okan Topçu
2
;
Robert Siegfried
3
and
Halit Oguztüzün
4
Affiliations:
1
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
;
2
Naval Science and Engineering Institute, Turkey
;
3
Aditerna GmbH, Germany
;
4
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Keyword(s):
Scenario Development, Distributed Simulation, Base Object Model, Model-Driven Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Computer Simulation Techniques
;
Conceptual Modeling
;
Distributed Simulation
;
Domain-Specific Tools
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Ontologies
;
Formal Methods
;
Ontologies
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Scenario development starts with capturing scenarios from the users and leads to the design and the development of the simulation environment to execute these scenarios. This paper proposes a scenario development process adopting a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) perspective. It takes scenario development and the use of scenarios in simulation environment development put forth in IEEE Recommended Practice for Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP) as a starting point. It then constructs a basic vocabulary including the definitions of operational, conceptual, and executable scenarios. Following MDE principles, scenario development is viewed as a series of model transformations. Operational scenarios, mostly defined in a natural language, are first transformed into conceptual scenarios, which conform to a formal metamodel. Then conceptual scenarios can be transformed into executable scenarios specified using a specific scenario definition language. Furthermore,
it is also possible to generate the constructs of simulation environment design and development using model transformations. In this regard, a conceptual scenario metamodel is proposed adopting the Base Object Model metamodel as an example. Then this metamodel is used to present the proposed process with a sample operational scenario and conceptual scenario excerpts. Samples are shown how model transformation can be employed for developing a Federation Object Model and an executable scenario file.
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