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Foil 6 Some More Terminology

From Overview of HLA and RTI DMSO Standards ARL Training Session IMT Dec 4 97 -- Dec 4 97. by Geoffrey Fox but selected by W. Furmanski from DMSO
Object: An entity in the domain being simulated by a federation that
  • Is of interest to more than one federate (if internal to an existing non HLA compliant simulation, then this is an object but not an HLA object)
  • Is handled by the Runtime Infrastructure (RTI)
Interaction: a non-persistent, time-tagged event generated by one federate and received by others (through RTI)
Attribute: A named datum (defined in Federation Object Model) associated with each instance of a class of objects
Parameter: A named datum (defined in Federation Object Model) associated with each instance of a class of interactions

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