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Reusing a simulation or parts of a simulation is difficult as often simulations are tightly coupled to a specific domain or even to the system analysed by the simulation. In this paper, we introduce a specification approach that allows simulation developers to model the structure and behaviour of a simulation with a domain-specific modelling language. The specification is used to compare a simulation or parts of a simulation to identify features that can be reused. The results show that our approach can find similar features based on their architectural structure and behaviour. Our approach enables developers to identify and then reuse simulation features.
This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the funding number 01IS18067D, and the KASTEL institutional funding.
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Koch, S., Hamann, E., Heinrich, R., Reussner, R. (2022). Feature-Based Investigation of Simulation Structure and Behaviour. In: Gerostathopoulos, I., Lewis, G., Batista, T., Bureš, T. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16697-6_13
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