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Reuse of Commercial Off-The-Shelf simulators is a promising and new approach to support collaborative and distributed simulations. This paper presents ComRTI, a reflexive XML middleware that eases reuse and collaboration between various COTS simulators. It is a portable middleware that runs on Windows and Unix stations. ComRTI uses only widely available software such as TCP/IP and XML toolkits. Heterogeneous simulators cooperate by sharing a neutral XML model. ComRTI eases to manage meta-models and neutral models. It helps to project dynamically a neutral model onto a specific target simulator. ComRTI has proven efficiency to develop cooperation services between industrial designers. Thus, distributed designers cooperate easily by sharing meta-models and reusing their classical simulation interface. The designers can cooperate also by running a distributed simulation in- volving different meta-models.
Work supported by the European Commission under contract Number IST 1999-13346, EADS Airbus, EADS Astrium, EADS CCR, CNAM-CEDRIC, Flow-Master, University of Oulu, DFKI.
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Blanc, M., Costantini, F., Dubois, S., Forget, M., Francillon, O., Toinard, C. (2002). Collaborative Simulation by Reuse of COTS Simulators with a Reflexive XML Middleware1 . In: Bruel, JM., Bellahsene, Z. (eds) Advances in Object-Oriented Information Systems. OOIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2426. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46105-1_17
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