DEMO I

Composing Executable Architectures from Legacy Simulations

John Woodring

Expand, Inc.

USA

ABSTRACT

Visual Simulation Objects (VSO) is a collaborative architecture specification, design and execution toolkit that assists analysts in rapidly prototyping system designs and evaluating their dynamic performance.  VSO uses a graphical simulation language to describe objects and their interactions.  It can be used both for individual applications and in a collaborative development environment.  VSO can translate architectures developed in a variety of languages, such as System Architect, to VSO¡¯s format and execute them in a distributed environment using a built-in HLA interface. 

We will demonstrate how two teams, initially working independently, can collaborate to build and execute a complex architecture and extract performance information from it.  The first team translates an Air Operations Center (AOC) model developed in System Architect to VSO¡¯s format and executes it to determine its dynamic properties.  The second team develops an executable architecture of Time Critical Targeting (TCT), a U.S. Air Force war fighting function, in VSO.  Working collaboratively, the two teams integrate their architectures in VSO via an HLA/RTI.  The integrated architecture describes multiple simultaneously-executing target acquisitions, each of which sends a detection message to the AOC, and can be used to examine how AOC resources can be allocated to meet the targeting requests. 

PRESENTER

Dr. John Woodring, Chief Scientist, Expand, Inc., USA

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Woodring is the Chief Scientist for Expand, Inc. and responsible for the technical oversight of all its commercial and government contracts.  He has 25 years experience in modeling and simulation and over 75 classified publications in military tactics analysis and evaluation.  He is currently the Principal Investigator for Air Force R&D projects related to the development of model architecture tools that can be used to evaluate warfighting alternatives. 

DEMO II

Pegasus Gateway:  Cyberspace Collaboration

ABSTRACT

The National Science Foundation (NSF) established an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Central Florida.  The Center serves as a national center of excellence in information technology (IT)-enabled design and realization of discrete manufactured products.  It is currently supported by a growing number of US industry partners and US government agencies including GEAE, Ford Motor Co., Alcoa, Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin, PTC, ANSYS, Raytheon, Respironics, BAE Systems, IBM, Engineous Software, VirtualE3D, and the federal agencies, including DoD, NIST, and NASA.  Two additional universities, Carnegie Mellon University and Virginia Tech, will join the Center.  Through four research thrusts, (1) Enabling Information Infrastructure, (2) Life-cycle, Collaborative, and Multidisciplinary Design, (3) Conceptual Design Tools and Design Process Models, and (4) Virtual Prototyping and Simulation, more than 30 faculty members along with their graduate students are conducting research activities to realize the innovative e-design paradigm. 

This demonstration presents the Pegasus gateway that enables a collaborative service-oriented design paradigm with capability for interoperability, trust-support infrastructure, systems engineering approach to design, integrated product realization through optimization, transparency, conflict resolution & negotiation, pro-activeness of analysis, virtual simulation & prototyping, lean product data management, multidisciplinary constraints & preferences capturing, and instant distributed access & visualization.  As a case scenario, this demonstration shows how the Pegasus gateway can be efficiently employed in collaboration for assembly design.  The Pegasus Gateway and service-oriented collaboration architecture realizes an environment in which joining knowledge is captured early in the assembly design process and is propagated seamlessly and transparently to downstream activities including virtual assembly analysis and assembly design decision-making. 

PRESENTER

Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim, US NSF I/UCRC for e-Design, University of Pittsburgh, USA. 

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim is currently a Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and a Research Specialist at the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design, University of Pittsburgh. He is leading the Virtual Prototyping and Simulation research group and is a member of IIE, ASME, SME, and AWS. He has published technical articles in leading academic journals including CAD, International Journal of Production Research, and IIE Transactions. Dr. Kim has worked on research projects on virtual prototyping and simulation, distributed information systems, and telerehabilitation funded by NIDRR of the Department of Education and Alcoa. His education degrees include a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Chonbuk National University, South Korea; and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include design and manufacturing engineering, Internet-based collaborative design, virtual prototyping and simulation, and assembly modeling.

DEMO III

Human Collaboration Tools for Net-Centric Operations

Ty W. Hayden

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

2875 Presidential Drive, Dayton, Ohio 45324