@conference {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio2010, title = {A MDA-based approach for the development of DEVS/SOA simulations}, booktitle = {Spring Simulation Multiconference 2010, SpringSim{\textquoteright}10}, year = {2010}, note = {cited By 6}, abstract = {The intrinsic complexity of the DEVS formalism and the manual production of DEVS-based simulations might constitute obstacles to the adoption of DEVS for both system modelers and simulation users. To overcome these obstacles, this paper introduces a model-driven approach for the development of DEVS simulations. The approach provides modelers and users with standard graphical modeling languages and with model transformation specifications for automated code production. Specifically, the approach enables the UML specification of DEVS models and automates the generation of DEVS simulations that make use of the DEVS/SOA implementation. An example application to the production of a DEVS/SOA simulation for a basic queuing system is also presented, to show the details of the proposed approach. {\textcopyright} 2010 SCS.}, keywords = {DEVS, Discrete event simulation, MDA, Model transformation, Model-driven development, Software architecture, Specifications, UML}, isbn = {9781450300698}, doi = {10.1145/1878537.1878685}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78650597613\&partnerID=40\&md5=d354a5334db8120b18b505cf48e0d4cd}, author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio and Gianni, D. and Risco-Mart{\'\i}n, J.L. and Pieroni, A.} } @conference {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio20104, title = {A MDA-based approach for the development of DEVS/SOA simulations}, booktitle = {Simulation Series}, volume = {42}, number = {1 BOOK 4}, year = {2010}, note = {cited By 0}, pages = {4-11}, abstract = {The intrinsic complexity of the DEVS formalism and the manual production of DEVS-based simulations might constitute obstacles to the adoption of DEVS for both system modelers and simulation users. To overcome these obstacles, this paper introduces a model-driven approach for the development of DEVS simulations. The approach provides modelers and users with standard graphical modeling languages and with model transformation specifications for automated code production. Specifically, the approach enables the UML specification of DEVS models and automates the generation of DEVS simulations that make use of the DEVS/SOA implementation. An example application to the production of a DEVS/SOA simulation for a basic queuing system is also presented, to show the details of the proposed approach.}, keywords = {DEVS, Discrete event simulation, Mathematical models, MDA, Model driven development, Model transformation, Software architecture, Specifications, UML}, isbn = {9781617382048}, issn = {07359276}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84887115977\&partnerID=40\&md5=d939ce7d1f75fadfcbdeca9335ab3f30}, author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio and Gianni, D. and Risco-Mart{\'\i}n, J.L. and Pieroni, A.} } @conference {Gianni2009, title = {Dissimjade: A framework for the development of agent-based distributed simulation systems}, booktitle = {SIMUTools 2009 - 2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, year = {2009}, note = {cited By 6}, publisher = {ICST}, organization = {ICST}, abstract = {The adoption of an agent-based approach that incorporates intelligence, adaptation and learning abilities has proved to significantly increase the realism and the accuracy of the simulation. Simulation systems of such a kind, however, require computational resources that might be considerable for a single agent, so to become unfeasible when the number of simulated agents scales up. A distributed environment is thus needed to allow the execution of such simulation systems, particularly in the case of scenarios populated by a large number of agents. Building an agent-based distributed simulation system, however, requires both specific expertise and knowledge of distributed simulation standards and a non-negligible amount of effort to develop ad-hoc components. This paper introduces a simulation framework named DisSimJADE, which enables the incorporation of distributed simulation facilities into existing agent-based systems. DisSimJADE is built on top of the popular agent-based framework JADE and allows to define agent-based simulation systems that can be transparently executed either in a local or distributed, therefore bringing significant savings in terms of effort and development time. In addition, DisSimJADE provides a uniform interface to the JADE framework, which further facilitates the production of distributed simulation systems to developers of JADE-based multi-agent systems.}, keywords = {Agent based simulation, Discrete event simulation, Distributed computer systems, Distributed simulations, Framework, HLA, Intelligent agents, JADE, Multi agent systems, Silicate minerals}, isbn = {9789639799455}, doi = {10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5725}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84922896723\&partnerID=40\&md5=2916ed218703e0d34cb973b665080ff4}, author = {Gianni, D. and Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio and Iazeolla, G.}, editor = {Stea G., Dalle O., Perrone L.F., Wainer G.} } @conference {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio2006149, title = {SimJ: A framework to develop distributed simulators}, booktitle = {Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2006, SCSC{\textquoteright}06, Part of the 2006 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim{\textquoteright}06}, year = {2006}, note = {cited By 10}, pages = {149-156}, abstract = {A distributed simulation (DS) is based on the use of several simulators distributed over a network infrastructure. Existing DS standards (e.g., HLA) only specify distribution services without giving support for developing individual simulators in a way to be compliant to the given standard. Traditionally, the development of individual simulators was facilitated by use of simulation languages (e.g., Csim, Arena, Extend, Modline, etc.) which however do not provide support to obtain interaction according to a given DS standard. The extension of such languages to include DS support is very problematic, especially in case of proprietary languages. For these reasons, the development of DS-compliant individual simulators is mostly done by use of standard programming languages (e.g., C, Java, etc.) with the additional effort of developing simulation mechanisms, model components and interfaces to the DS standard. This paper introduces SimJ, a Java library that minimizes such efforts, so that simulators can be developed as to be run on a single local host and can then be partitioned to be run over a set of networked hosts according to a given DS standard. The simulators SimJ addresses are discreteevent simulators (DES) and are easily portable to different DS standards. The paper illustrates the design guidelines of SimJ and presents an example use based on the HLA DS standard.}, keywords = {C (programming language), Computer simulation languages, Discrete event simulation, Discrete-event simulators, Distributed simulations, Distribution services, HLA, Java, Java library, Model components, Network infrastructure, Simulation mechanisms, Simulators, Standard programming language, Standardization}, isbn = {9781622763528}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-50149099672\&partnerID=40\&md5=d2720c3ec54b8e318b0231b9ab847d3a}, author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio and Gianni, D. and Iazeolla, G.} }