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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is finding increasing application in development and testing of command and control systems comprised of information-intensive component systems. Achieving interoperability is one of the chief System of Systems…
Cloud simulation environments today are largely employed to model and simulate complex systems for remote accessibility and variable capacity requirements. In this regard, scalability issues in Modeling and Simulation (M\&S) computational…
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for system design and prototyping is practiced today both in the industry and academia. M&S are two different areas altogether and have specific objectives. However, most of the times these two separate areas…
Design patterns are well practices to share software development experiences. These patterns allow enhancing reusability, readability and maintainability of architecture and code of software applications. As simulation applies computerized…
Discrete event simulation specification (DEVS) is a formalism designed to describe both discrete state and continuous state systems. It is a powerful abstract mathematical notation. However, until recently it lacked proper graphical…
The Discrete Event System Specification formalism (DEVS), which supports hierarchical and modular model composition, has been widely used to understand, analyze and develop a variety of systems. DEVS has been implemented in various…
World models are central to LLM agents that must evaluate actions over long horizons. Yet much existing work focuses on environments governed by physical dynamics or spatial structure, whereas many high-impact domains, including supply…
As per leading IT experts, today's large enterprises are going through business transformations. They are adopting service-based IT models such as SOA to develop their enterprise information systems and applications. In fact, SOA is an…
Developing and evaluating distributed inference algorithms remains difficult due to the lack of standardized tools for modeling heterogeneous devices and networks. Existing studies often rely on ad-hoc testbeds or proprietary…
DEVS is a popular formalism for modelling complex dynamic systems using a discrete-event abstraction. At this abstraction level, a timed sequence ofpertinent "events" input to a system (or internal, in the case of timeouts) cause…
Software Defined Networks has seen tremendous growth and deployment in different types of networks. Compared to traditional networks it decouples the control logic from network layer devices, and centralizes it for efficient traffic…
Responses to disastrous events are a challenging problem, because of possible damages on communication infrastructures. For instance, after a natural disaster, infrastructures might be entirely destroyed. Different network paradigms were…
Enterprise Networks, over the years, have become more and more complex trying to keep up with new requirements that challenge traditional solutions. Just to mention one out of many possible examples, technologies such as Virtual LANs…
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This paper presents our findings for using activity modeling for simulation (validation), model checking (verification), and execution purposes. Each is needed to tackle system complexity and further research into behavioral modeling. We…
Interconnected computing systems, in various forms, are expected to permeate our lives, realizing the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) and allowing us to enjoy novel, enhanced services that promise to improve our everyday lives.…
When it comes to addressing the safety/security related needs at different production/construction sites, accurate detection of the presence of workers, vehicles, equipment important and formed an integral part of computer vision-based…
Emergent behavior is a key feature defining a system under study as a complex system. Simulation has been recognized as the only way to deal with the study of the emergency of properties (at a macroscopic level) among groups of system…
The prevailing net-centric environment demands and enables modeling and simulation to combine efforts from numerous disciplines. Software techniques and methodology, in particular service-oriented architecture, provide such an opportunity.…
Event-driven microservice architecture (EDMA) has emerged as a crucial architectural pattern for scalable cloud applications. In typical EDMAs, database systems are relegated to isolated storage engines for individual components, blind to…