Towards a Formal Standard for Interoperability in M&S/System of Systems Integration

Bernard Zeigler, University of Arizona, Saurabh Mittal, University of Arizona, and Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University

7/17/2008
(Original Publish Date: 9/1/2007)

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is finding increasing application in development and testing of command and control systems comprised of information-intensive component systems. In this paper, we apply a System of Systems (SoS) perspective on the integration of M&S with such systems. We employ recently developed interoperability concepts based on linguistic categories along with the Discrete Event System Specification formalism to propose a standard for interoperability. We will show how the developed standard is implemented in DEVS/SOA netcentric modeling and simulation framework.