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A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Towards COTS distributed simulation using GRIDS
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Unraveling the Web Services Web: An Introduction to SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
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An Accounting Object Infrastructure for Knowledge-Based Enterprise Models
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Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services
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Agent-based semantic web services
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Semantic E-Workflow Composition
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A Multilevel Composability Model for Semantic Web Services
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Ontologies for modeling and simulation: issues and approaches
WSC '04 Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation
Simulation Model Composition using BOMs
DS-RT '06 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
SDR: A Semantic Based Distributed Repository for Simulation Models and Resources
AMS '07 Proceedings of the First Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation
On Syntactic Composability and Model Reuse
AMS '07 Proceedings of the First Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation
Semantic transformation of web services
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
An Agent-Based Environment for Simulation Model Composition
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A simulation framework for service-oriented computing systems
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Applying semantic web technologies for efficient preparation of simulation studies in manufacturing
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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COTS simulation packages (CSPs) have proved popular in an industrial setting with a number of software vendors. In contrast, options for re-using existing models seem more limited. Re-use of simulation component models by collaborating organizations is restricted by the same semantic issues however that restrict the inter-organization use of web services. The current representations of web components are predominantly syntactic in nature lacking the fundamental semantic underpinning required to support discovery on the emerging semantic web. Semantic models, in the form of ontology, utilized by web service discovery and deployment architecture provide one approach to support simulation model reuse. Semantic interoperation is achieved through the use of simulation component ontology to identify required components at varying levels of granularity (including both abstract and specialized components). Selected simulation components are loaded into a CSP, modified according to the requirements of the new model and executed. The paper presents the development of ontology, connector software and web service discovery architecture in order to understand how such ontology are created, maintained and subsequently used for simulation model reuse. The ontology is extracted from health service simulation - comprising hospitals and the National Blood Service. The ontology engineering framework and discovery architecture provide a novel approach to interorganization simulation, uncovering domain semantics and adopting a less intrusive interface between participants. Although specific to CSPs the work has wider implications for the simulation community.