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European Council for Modelling and Simulation |
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Title: |
OSA : An Open Component-Based Architecture For Discrete-Event
Simulation |
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Authors: |
Olivier Dalle |
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(2006).ECMS
2006 Proceedings edited by: W. Borutzky, A. Orsoni, R. Zobel. European
Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2006 ISBN:
0-9553018-0-7 20th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Bonn,
May 28-31, 2006 |
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Dalle, O. (2006). OSA/: An Open
Component-Based Architecture For Discrete-Event Simulation. ECMS 2006
Proceedings edited by: W. Borutzky, A. Orsoni, R. Zobel
(pp. 253-259). European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2006-0253 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2006-0253 |
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Abstract: |
This paper
describes work in progress to initiate the collaborative development of a new
software platform for discrete-event simulation studies, the Open Simulation Architecture
(OSA). OSA is primarily intended to be a federating platform for the
simulation community: it is designed to favour the
integration of new or existing contributions at every level of its
architecture. The platform core supports discrete-event simulation engine(s)
built on top of the ObjectWeb Consortium’s Fractal component
model. In OSA, the systems to be simulated are modeled and instrumented using Fractal components. Fractal components
offer many advanced and original features, such as multi-programming language
support and the ability to share sub-components. In OSA, the event handling is mostly hidden in the controller part of the components,
which alleviates noticeably the modeling process, but also ease the
replacement of any part of the simulation engine. Apart the simulation
engine, OSA aims at integrating useful tools for modeling, developing, experimenting
and analysing simulations. For this purpose it relies
on the Eclipse development platform and its ability to be extended. |
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