A methodology to specify DEVS domain specific profiles and create profile-based models

Author

Garredu, S. ; Vittori, E. ; Santucci, J. ; Urbani, D.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Corsica, Corte, France

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

353

Lastpage

359

Abstract

Discrete EVent System Specification (DEVS) is a popular formalism which allows specifying and simulating models. Its main drawback is that its implementation is simulator-specific, i.e. models have to be programmed using an Object-Oriented Language (OOL). In this paper, we introduce DEVS profiles, which are specializations/restrictions of DEVS meta-model, and we explain how to create a DEVS Profile for non-computer scientists. We distinguish two kinds of users: the metamodelers and the modelers. Models designed with DEVS profiles can be mapped onto platform specific models and to object code using a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach. DEVS profiles improve the reusability of models.

Keywords

discrete event simulation; object-oriented languages; software engineering; DEVS domain specific profiles; DEVS meta-model; OOL; discrete event system specification; model driven architecture; object-oriented language; profile-based models; Adaptation models; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Mathematical model; Object oriented modeling; Software engineering; Unified modeling language; DEVS domain specific profiles; Discrete event simulation; MDA; methodology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0964-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0965-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRI.2011.6009573

Filename

6009573