Enabling Simulation Interoperability
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The road to COTS-interoperability: from generic HLA-interfaces towards plug-and-play capabilities
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
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The definition of the High Level Architecture (HLA) some years ago made possible interoperability for a wide range of simulation systems and applications. However, as there are different possible ways to use HLA for performing the same task; real and easy interoperability is still not a reality. HLA was born as a military standard, but it soon became a very important tool in non-military applications. In fact, the industry has understood that more standardization efforts are needed to obtain true interoperability between the industry COTS simulation packages, defining Interoperability Reference Models in the SISO CSPI PDG standard (SISO Commercial-off-the-shelf Simulation Packages Interoperability Product Development Group standard). These models propose universal patterns for using HLA in the most common interoperability environments for manufacturing applications. In this paper, a new Interoperability Reference Model is proposed for Entity Transfer in military applications. Furthermore, this model has been tested on a specific HLA RTI implementation and its use has been exemplified in a real world interoperability environment.