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Empirical-Evolution of Frameworks Supporting Co-simulation Tool-Chain Development

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Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'18 2018)

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Co-simulation has been proposed as a method for facilitating integrated simulation of multi-domain models of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS). To ensure that co-simulations are well-managed, concerns beyond technical mechanisms for co-simulation also need to be addressed during tool-chain development. In this paper, an evolution of two frameworks supporting co-simulation tool-chain development is first introduced. Drawing upon the empirical findings from an initial framework SPIT developed based on model-driven techniques, we develop a service-oriented framework, SPIRIT based on model-driven and tool-integration techniques. Moreover, we propose a 3D viewpoint based method to formalize concept models of co-simulation tool-chains. In order to evaluate the evolution, we use visualizations of related concept models to compare tool-chains developed based on these two frameworks.

J. Wang—An Associate professor from UESTC.

M. Törngren—A professor from KTH.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In [15], a co-simulation tool-chain is defined as a toolset supporting implementation and management of co-simulations.

  2. 2.

    In [2], the authors proposed a method formalizing model relationships by four types, we added another type: co-simulation connection to represent co-simulations between models.

  3. 3.

    In [15], five types of tools are introduced: Tool, Hardware, Repository, Sequencer and CosimControl.

  4. 4.

    These tool-chains have been introduced in these two papers. Both of them aimed to support co-simulations for verification of auto-braking system.

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    Jinzhi Lu, Didem Gürdür, De-Jiu Chen & Martin Törngren

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Lu, J., Gürdür, D., Chen, DJ., Wang, J., Törngren, M. (2018). Empirical-Evolution of Frameworks Supporting Co-simulation Tool-Chain Development. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L.P., Costanzo, S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_80

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