DEVS Standardization
Workshop
http://www.acims.arizona.edu/EVENTS/DEVSStanardization.htm
Part of the Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Symposium, SCS SpringSim 2011 Multi-Conference
Synopsis: M&S tools that are compliant with
standards play a significant role in developing high quality products and
services across many interesting application domains. To have standardized DEVS
tools, it is necessary to develop standards that capture the fundamental
aspects of modeling and simulation – i.e., syntax and semantics of model
specifications and simulation protocols. The standards’ role is to support
building standalone DEVS-compliant simulation models and promote
interoperability among simulation models. They can also help better use of advanced
computing technologies such as software modeling tools and cloud computing
platforms.
This workshop is
aimed at advancing standardizations for the DEVS model development and
simulation experimentations. Given continuing advances and growing user
community of DEVS, this standardization effort will benefit the entire M&S
profession. Tool developers and simulation professionals can benefit from
standards in advancing the application of modeling and simulation. The
standardization positively impacts practitioners and developers alike and more broadly
all sectors of the M&S community and users. This workshop consists of:
Presentations: Introduces the standardization concepts and
development of successful standards at the present time. A state-of-affairs on DEVS
standardization activities, tools, and challenges will be included in the
presentations. The presentations will be arranged in a single track. A set of
invited presentations introducing recent progresses in standardization are
selected by the program chairs, and additional presentations and posters are
selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted regular or short papers (see
Papers section below).
Papers: Regular or short papers on various aspects of standardizations
contributing to formulation of standards. Papers are sought on understanding,
specifications, and realizations of standardization problems and solutions for
single and distributed modeling and simulation platforms. Contributions on other
related aspects of standardizations are also encouraged. Papers should be
submitted under the DEVS Standardization Workshop. Submit technical articles
and experience reports, properly formatted in accordance with these guidelines.
For paper preparation guidelines please visit http://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf. Papers must be submitted as PDF files to http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS11/. Accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings and archived in both the ACM and the European Digital
Library.
Model
competition: Participants of the
workshop are encouraged to submit DEVS models that are developed and validated.
These models are important as exemplars for standardization. Simulation model
entries should focus on common, exciting, and challenging application domains
or otherwise capture fundamentals of DEVS modeling formalisms along with their variants
and extensions. Models can encompass Parallel DEVS, Cellular DEVS, DEVS Agent, Hybrid
DEVS, and Variable/Dynamic Structure DEVS among others. Every entry needs to
provide the following items in order to replicate the example results.
·
Required
o
A conceptual description of the system being modeled
o
Complete source code for the models
o
Items such as third-party software or executables that are required
for successful execution of the simulation model
o
Information about simulation and modeling tools used or otherwise
an executable that can be used with the source code to run simulations
o
Sample simulation results
o
Developer names and a Readme file
·
Desired
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Source code documentation
o
Model specifications
Entries need to be
deposited into Source Forge (http://devsstandard.sourceforge.net). The
simulation models are encouraged to be presented as posters. Entries will be
judged at the workshop with three of them receiving awards in the amount of
$500 each with a certificate sponsored by RTSync Corporation.
A special issue on DEVS
Standardization will be proposed for the Simulation:
Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation
International journal.
Important
Dates:
|
Paper |
Dec. 20, 2010 |
|
Notification |
Jan. 9, 2011 |
|
Camera Ready |
Jan. 25, 2011 |
|
Presentations |
March 28, 2011 |
|
Models |
March 28, 2011 |