Collaborative Simulation by Reuse of COTS Simulators with a Reflexive XML Middleware1

Authors:
Mathieu Blanc;Fabien Costantini;Sébastien Dubois;Manuel Forget;Olivier Francillon;Christian Toinard
Affiliations:
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Venue:
OOIS '02 Proceedings of the Workshops on Advances in Object-Oriented Information Systems
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Reuse of Commercial Off-The-Shelf simulators is a promising and new approach to support collaborative and distributed simulations. This paper presents ComRTI, a reflexive XML middleware that eases reuse and collaboration between various COTS simulators. It is a portable middleware that runs on Windows and Unix stations. ComRTI uses only widely available software such as TCP/IP and XML toolkits. Heterogeneous simulators cooperate by sharing a neutral XML model. ComRTI eases to manage meta-models and neutral models. It helps to project dynamically a neutral model onto a specific target simulator. ComRTI has proven efficiency to develop cooperation services between industrial designers. Thus, distributed designers cooperate easily by sharing meta-models and reusing their classical simulation interface. The designers can cooperate also by running a distributed simulation involving different meta-models.