Title
M&S as a service: Expectations and challenges
Author
Siegfried, R.
van den Berg, T.W.
Cramp, A.J.
Huiskamp, W.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
Modeling & Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) is a concept that potentially offers all kinds of possibilities to support M&S users and providers. For many reasons service-based approaches are considered to be very promising architectures for realizing next generation simulation environments. The combination of service-based approaches with ideas taken from cloud computing is known as "Modeling & Simulation as a Service". Over the past year, NATO Modeling and Simulation Group MSG-131 ("Modelling and Simulation as a Service: New concepts and Service Oriented Architectures") has investigated the concept of MSaaS and collected national perspectives and experiences regarding MSaaS. The resulting "Multi-National Concept for M&S as a Service" provides an overview about the nations' activities in this area and is input to "NATO M&S as a Service Concept" that is currently being developed by NATOs Allied Command Transformation (ACT). This paper presents the most recent results of NATO MSG-131 Specialist Team in the area of MSaaS and related national results from research and development activities. It illustrates potential benefits that may be achieved by MSaaS and challenges that remain to be solved. National experiences with service-based distributed simulation environments are reported.
Subject
Operations Modelling
MSG - Modelling Simulation & Gaming
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Defence Research
Simulation
Defence, Safety and Security
Computer simulation
Information services
Allied command transformations
Distributed simulation environments
Model and simulation
Modelling and simulations
Potential benefits
Research and development
Service-based
Simulation environment
Service oriented architecture (SOA)
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TNO identifier
520191
Publisher
SISO, Orlando, FL
Source
2014 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshops (SIW), 8-12 September 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA, 248-257
Article number
14F-SIW-040
Document type
conference paper