contends with the physical/technical realms of connections between systems, which include hardware and firmware, protocols, networks, etc. If two systems can exchange physical data with each other in a way that the target system receives and decoded the submitted data from the sending system the two systems are integrated.
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Using Simulation Systems for Decision Support
Andreas Tolk (Old Dominion University, USA)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-774-4.ch014
Abstract
This chapter describes the use of simulation systems for decision support in support of real operations, which is the most challenging application domain in the discipline of modeling and simulation. To this end, the systems must be integrated as services into the operational infrastructure. To support discovery, selection, and composition of services, they need to be annotated regarding technical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, dynamic, and conceptual categories. The systems themselves must be complete and validated. The data must be obtainable, preferably via common protocols shared with the operational infrastructure. Agents and automated forces must produce situation adequate behavior. If these requirements for simulation systems and their annotations are fulfilled, decision support simulation can contribute significantly to the situational awareness up to cognitive levels of the decision maker.