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Given by Wojtek Furmanski, Geoffrey C. Fox at ARL Mid Year Review on Feb 18-19 98. Foils prepared Feb 21 98
Outside Index Summary of Material

General Overview of FMS Activities
  • Outreach
  • Training
  • Technology Transfer
PEI Projects
  • General FMS Support and Tech. Tracking
  • RTI Parallelization Planning
  • SPEEDES Training Materials
  • FMS Training
  • Visual Simulation Tools
Highlights
Year 3 Expectations

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1 NPAC ARL PET Activities in Forces Modeling and Simulation
2 Outline of NPAC ARL FMS Work
3 FMS - Outreach
4 FMS - Training
5 FMS - Technology Transfer
6 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking
7 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking
8 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking
9 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking
10 RTI Parallelization Planning
11 RTI Parallelization Planning
12 RTI Parallelization Planning
13 RTI Parallelization Planning
14 SPEEDES Training Materials
15 SPEEDES Training Materials
16 SPEEDES Training Materials
17 SPEEDES Training Materials
18 FMS Training
19 FMS Training
20 FMS Training
21 FMS Training
22 Visual Simulation Tools
23 Visual Simulation Tools
24 Visual Simulation Tools
25 Visual Simulation Tools
26 Summary of SignificantAccomplishments
27 FMS - Yr 3 Support Expectations
28 Auxiliary Material: Figures, Notes
29 HLA Object Model Development Tool (OMDT)
30 Representation of Object Class Structure Table in OMDT
31 Representation of Interaction Table in OMDT
32 Representation of Attribute/Parameter Table in OMDT
33 Current Work on OMDT Development at NPAC
34 Experimentation with OLE/MFC for creation of OMDT Tables I
35 Experimentation with OLE/MFC for creation of OMDT Tables II
36 HLA Object Model Library(OML) - I
37 HLA OML - II
38 OSIM - A Commercial Simulation Development Product
39 OSim Class Builder Framework Screen
40 UML Support in Rational Rose I
41 UML Support in Rational Rose II
42 WebFlow SC'97 Demo
43 JWORB Performance I
44 JWORB Performance II
45 JWORB Performance III
46 Use of WebFlow in WebHLA
47 WebHLA based Virtual Prototyping Environment
48 Direct X Framework

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 NPAC ARL PET Activities in Forces Modeling and Simulation

From Status and Futures of NPAC PET FMS Activity ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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Prof. Geoffrey C. Fox
and Prof. Wojtek Furmanski
NPAC, Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse NY 13244-4100
ARL PET Workshop - February 18, 1998
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Foil 2 Outline of NPAC ARL FMS Work

From Status and Futures of NPAC PET FMS Activity ARL Mid Year Review -- Feb 18-19 98. *
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General Overview of FMS Activities
  • Outreach
  • Training
  • Technology Transfer
PEI Projects
  • General FMS Support and Tech. Tracking
  • RTI Parallelization Planning
  • SPEEDES Training Materials
  • FMS Training
  • Visual Simulation Tools
Highlights
Year 3 Expectations
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Foil 3 FMS - Outreach

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Simulation Interoperability Workshop Fall'97, Orlando FL, Sept `97 - contacts with Bob Wasilausky, Mark Roberts
FMS CHSSI Review, NRaD Nov `97 - insight into TEMPO, SPEEDES, IMPORT; contacts with Jeff Steinman, Jeff Wallace
ARL visit Dec `97 - contacts with APG (Jeff Sauerborn, Eileen Viar), IMT(Sam Blankenship)
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Foil 4 FMS - Training

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HLA Overview/Introductory Tutorial - delivered as part of IMT Training on T&E for M&S, Dec'97
Collecting HLA, RTI and FMS materials for advanced training development: Orlando SIW'97, FMS CHSSI Review, DMSO HLA Material Analysis, WebHLA prototyping
See also SPEEDES Training Project below
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Foil 5 FMS - Technology Transfer

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HLA/RTI - new DMSO M&S technology to be accepted DoD-wide
Object Web (CORBA/Java) Middleware - promising framework to build WebHLA
WebFlow - NPAC visual dataflow environment to be adapted for Visual Simulation Tools
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Foil 6 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking

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Project Objective
  • Identify new Web/Commodity and HLA/RTI technologies of relevance for FMS
  • Interact with FMS users to find the most efficient ways for technology transfer to the DoD community
  • Focus on the following domains: HLA meets Object Web (CORBA, Java), Data Mining, Web based Commodity Front-Ends (VRML, DirectX) for M&S
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Foil 7 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking

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User/Beneficiary
  • Virtual Proving Ground (VPG) is interested in new Web/DB techs (Data Mining), simulation scripting, interactive Web browser interfaces
  • FMS CHSSI (SPEEDES, TEMPO) community is interested in new commodity middleware such as CORBA or JavaBeans
  • T&E/IMT community can benefit from new NT simulation & visualization technologies (DirectX)
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Foil 8 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking

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Technical Approach
  • Actively monitor developments in Web/Commodity technologies of relevance for HPCC
  • Focus on the following technology domains:
    • HLA/RTI - new DMSO M&S technology to be accepted DoD-wide
    • Object Web (CORBA/Java) Middleware - promising framework to build WebHLA
    • Data Mining, XML Scripting - of relevance for Virtual Proving Ground
    • DirectX based M&S Front-Ends - integrated Web/commodity from Microsoft (part of IE)
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Foil 9 General FMS Support and Technology Tracking

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Status, Milestones and Deliverables
  • Progress with official FMS PET pages for ARL - core pages ready by mid Feb
  • OriginalSim info pages (related to SPEEDES and Visual Simulation Tools) - by March
  • Exploring Data Mining and XML Scripting for VPG - info pages planned by April
  • Exploring DirectX for T&E/IMT - info pages by May
  • Final Report due August
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Foil 10 RTI Parallelization Planning

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Project Objective
  • Understand feasibility and requirements for developing parallel and/or distributed RTI
  • Explore parallel RTI option i.e. porting DMSO RTI 1.0 C++ code to Origin2000
  • Explore distributed RTI option i.e.coupling multiple MSRC or DC sites for HPDC operation
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Foil 11 RTI Parallelization Planning

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User/Beneficiary
  • VPG team who will likely start converting current DIS/ModSAF simulations to HLA
  • FMS CHSSI system developers (SPEEDES, TEMPO, E-ModSAF, IMPORT) who could use parallel/distributed RTI framework as a testbed and integration platform for their systems
  • CMS team (Ft. Belvoir) who could use parallel RTI to convert their parallel CMS to HLA
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Foil 12 RTI Parallelization Planning

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Technical Approach
  • parallel RTI option not feasible - not good enough contacts into DMSO to get RTI 1.0 source code
  • distributed RTI - feasible and funded by CEWES
  • Origin2000 port of CMS as driving application
  • we will re-visit parallel RTI in Year 3 (to support parallel CMS over HLA) after we develop distributed RTI and parallel CMS over DIS
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Foil 13 RTI Parallelization Planning

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Status, Milestones and Deliverables
  • Good progress for distributed RTI - early prototype for CEWES end of March
  • Parallel/Distributed RTI Planning Report for ARL by end of March
  • Develop Year 3 proposal for Metacomputing CMS over Distr RTI including CEWES & ARL MSRCs
  • No further progress in Year 2 for parallel RTI
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Foil 14 SPEEDES Training Materials

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Project Objectives
  • Develop Web based interactive training for the SPEEDES system
  • Focus on advanced M&S development teams who need assistance in using the SPEEDES kernel
  • Include remote on-line demonstrations and hands-on code development support as part of training
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Foil 15 SPEEDES Training Materials

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User/Beneficiary
  • Wargame2000 Project at JNTF (Joint National Test Facilities), Colorado Springs who selected SPEEDES as core simulational engine
  • Commercial companies such as OriginalSim, Montreal, or System Integration Software, Colorado Springs, who intend to license SPEEDES
  • FMS CHSSI Projects such as Parallel IMPORT which integrate SPEEDES with IMPORT
  • DMSO RTI Time Management (TM) Service designers and developers (TM offers a subset of SPEEDES functionality)
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Foil 16 SPEEDES Training Materials

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Technical Approach
  • Studying SPEEDES papers and presentations
  • Inspecting SPEEDES source (when available)
  • Developing simple SPEEDES demos
  • Installing SPEEDES on Origin2000 at ARL
  • Exploring connectivities between SPEEDES and Object Web RTI (can they be integrated and how)
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Foil 17 SPEEDES Training Materials

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Status, Milestones and Deliverables
  • All SPEEDES papers (eleven) identified, downloaded and analyzed
  • Still waiting for SPEEDES license from NASA...
  • Papers discuss core technology only - we need to see demos that come with the release to understand the application perspective before we can proceed
  • If, as expected, license comes Feb/March, we can still deliver early training materials by August 98
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Foil 18 FMS Training

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Project Objective
  • Presentation of Training/Seminars in the FMS Area
  • Cooperation with the associated IMT activities
  • Delivery of at least two seminars on WebHLA
  • Participation in the IMT T&E conference in July 98
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Foil 19 FMS Training

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User/Beneficiary
  • Entry level users who want to learn about HLA/RTI and/or Object Web (CORBA, Java, DCOM)
  • Decision makers who want to learn about linkages between HLA and Web for the planning purposes
  • Advanced M&S developers who want to use SPEEDES or Object Web RTI in High Performance M&S systems
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Foil 20 FMS Training

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Technical Approach
  • Study M&S systems: HLA/RTI, SPEEDES, TEMPO, IMPORT
  • Couple training/seminars with prototype development of WebHLA
  • Deliver web training linked to simulations via Object Web RTI
  • Disseminate lessons learned in seminars
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Foil 21 FMS Training

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Status, Milestones and Deliverables
  • HLA Overview/Introductory Tutorial - delivered as part of IMT Training on T&E for M&S, Dec'97
  • HLA materials collected; starting HLA training development
  • SPEEDES training waits for license from NASA
  • WebHLA training development starts in April (after Object Web RTI prototype operational)
  • ModSAF training development starts now (license just received from STRICOM/CEWES)
  • FMS Seminars to be presented during IMT ITEA Conf in July 98.
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Foil 22 Visual Simulation Tools

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Project Objective
  • Prototype Web based visual tools for HLA simulation development
  • Integrate NPAC visual dataflow system WebFlow with DMSO spreadsheet tools such as OMDT for FOM/SOM authoring
  • Provide OMDT-like property sheets for fine-tuning WebFlow based visual simulation modules
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Foil 23 Visual Simulation Tools

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User/Beneficiary
  • VPG where visual FOM/SOM authoring can accelerate development of T&E simulation scenarios
  • Entry level FMS users who could use Visual Simulation Tools as part of the FMS/WebHLA Training
  • FMS CHSSI system developers who could attract users by offering user friendly visual authoring
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Foil 24 Visual Simulation Tools

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Technical Approach
  • Explore current DMSO tools such as OMDT by Aegis (for NT) and Java tools by TASC (not ready)
  • Develop COM based components with OMDT look-and-feel using Excel/VBA automation or directly MFC for CV++5.
  • Couple such COM spreadsheet components with WebFlow modules
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Foil 25 Visual Simulation Tools

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Status, Milestones and Deliverables
  • OMDT tool downloaded, installed, analyzed
  • ongoing COM work on Excel/VBA and MFC VC++ spreadsheet components
  • WebFlow integration work to start in March
  • Early prototype expected by May/June
  • Stable release by end of August
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Foil 26 Summary of SignificantAccomplishments

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Contacts established with:
  • FMS CHSSI program (Bob Wasilausky, Jeff Steinman, Mark Roberts, Jeff Wallace)
  • FMS users at ARL (VPG, Jeff Sauerborn)
  • FMS users at Ft. Belvoir (Steve Bishop)
  • IMT project at ARL (Sam Blankenship)
Distributed RTI funded by CEWES
  • will offer good insight into parallel RTI
  • good start for a joint CEWES/ARL meta-M&S
  • good progress so far with implementation (JWORB)
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Foil 27 FMS - Yr 3 Support Expectations

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We intend to develop WebHLA technology demos in Year 3, including all 3 tiers: Front-End(Visualization and authoring), Middleware (RTI), Back-End (DB)
PET FMS focus is on Middleware and we provide low cost commodity solutions (NT) for the Front- and Back-End layers.
We could use help in high-end technologies from:
  • SciVis for advanced displays (SGI, ImmersaDesk)
  • Info/Com for parallel Oracle databases
  • Programming Tools for Origin2000 code optimization
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Foil 28 Auxiliary Material: Figures, Notes

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WebFlow - Current Status (SC97 screen)
Distributed RTI (JWORB performance)
Visual Simulation Tools (OMDT, Excel, MFC)
SPEEDES Training Materials (Osim screens)
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Foil 29 HLA Object Model Development Tool (OMDT)

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Automates the process of constructing Simulation Object Models (SOMs) and Federation Object Models (FOMs).
Provides for direct browsing/downloading/uploading object models from the DMSO Modeling and Simulation Resource Repository (MSRR).
Generates the Federation Execution Details (FED) file required by the Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) to execute federations.
Allows for documentation of interrelated components in the Object Model in the following tabular forms
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Foil 30 Representation of Object Class Structure Table in OMDT

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Foil 31 Representation of Interaction Table in OMDT

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Foil 32 Representation of Attribute/Parameter Table in OMDT

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Foil 33 Current Work on OMDT Development at NPAC

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Plans to create a complete COM-based solution for OMDT in Windows environment (Current Release of OMDT by Aegis Research Center not a COM - based modular solution, just a monolythic Visual C++ program).
Currently experimenting with Excel Spreadsheets for table-creation purposes using Object Linking and Embedding(OLE) techniques.
Visual C++/Visual Basic environments being experimented upon to access Windows Component Objects.
Trial experiments with Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) Graphics Library for table-creation/editing purposes.
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Foil 34 Experimentation with OLE/MFC for creation of OMDT Tables I

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Fig1: Use of Excel Sheet through OLE/VB
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Foil 35 Experimentation with OLE/MFC for creation of OMDT Tables II

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Fig2: Drawing of table with MFC graphics
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Foil 36 HLA Object Model Library(OML) - I

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An internet-based database application to store,browse and retrieve HLA Object Models
Uses OMT Data Interchange Format(DIF) for check in and check out of Object Models
Allows for keyword searches of the contents of all the Object Models stored in the library
A OLE/COM-based solution for OMDT can tightly integrate OML with the tool using Internet Explorer Browser Object.
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Foil 37 HLA OML - II

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Foil 38 OSIM - A Commercial Simulation Development Product

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A collection of interoperating frameworks for supporting model development,code generation, communication and execution
Builder Framework- A visual development environment for class library and model creation
CodeGenerator Framework - automatically generates the complete skeleton code for the simulation application with documentation
Executor Framework - executes and controls the simulation and packages it in a scenario for re-use. Current Version only for Real-Time simulation implementations - Future versions to support Discrete Event simulations with SPEEDES support.
Viewer Framework - Allows interfaces to external custom application to be created/automatically maintained by the CodeGenerator( X/Motif View/VRML View)
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Foil 39 OSim Class Builder Framework Screen

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Foil 40 UML Support in Rational Rose I

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Foil 41 UML Support in Rational Rose II

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Foil 42 WebFlow SC'97 Demo

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Foil 43 JWORB Performance I

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Transfer Array of Integers
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Foil 44 JWORB Performance II

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Transfer Array of Integers
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Foil 45 JWORB Performance III

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Transfer Array of Structures
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Foil 46 Use of WebFlow in WebHLA

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Foil 47 WebHLA based Virtual Prototyping Environment

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Foil 48 Direct X Framework

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Similar to HLA/RTI but
without object/database model
(OMT, OML, FOMs, SOMs)
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