In areas such as military, security, aerospace, and disaster management, the need for
performance optimization and interoperability among heterogeneous systems is …

Simulation is strongly related to the Military Sector, indeed Computer Simulation has been
effectively applied to Defense and Aerospace since the end of the World War II and John …

Discrete Event Specification (DEVS) environments are implemented over middleware
systems such as HLA, RMI, CORBA and others. DEVS exhibits concepts of systems theory …

A critical aspect and differentiator of a System of Systems (SoS) versus a single monolithic
system is interoperability among the constituent disparate systems. A major application of …

The increasing complexity of systems entails an increasing complexity of simulation models.
Likewise, heterogeneity in system components corresponds to heterogeneous simulation …

Modeling and simulation (M&S) for system design and prototyping is practiced today both in
industry and academia. M&S are two different areas altogether and have specific objectives …

Abstract Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) present challenges to current model-based
software engineering methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP). In this …

Data link is a key factor for achieving interoperability of combat units to enhance operational
capability in modern net-centric operations. Aiming at improving the interoperability between …

Intelligence can be defined as an emergent property in some types of complex systems and
may arise as a result of an agent's interactions with the environment or with other agents …

Simulation has been widely adopted as a support tool for the validation and experimentation
of distributed systems. It allows different devices and applications to be evaluated and …