A Platform for Developing Advanced Discrete-Event Simulations at a Worldwide scale

We propose to develop a platform to allow simulationists to collaborate in distributed simulation environments. The effort builds on top of the results obtained during the creation of EucalyptUs?, and our main goal is to go one step further in the current collaborative environments, and to provide a mechanism for sharing Models and Experiments throughout the world. The expected result is an environment for the development of models and the execution of simulations that provides experts around the world with an infrastructure to execute distributed simulations through CA*net4 (and their international counterparts). The environment can be integrated with other platforms (for instance, it will be incorporated into Ovation, the next generation of Eucalyptus), and will incorporate varied engines from different centres. The project innovation will provide new standard means of interchanging simulations and models, sharing experiments and allow the users to establish remote collaborations.

Gabriel Wainer received the M.Sc. (1993) and Ph.D. degrees (1998, with highest honors) of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France. In July 2000, he joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON, Canada), where he is now an Associate Professor. He has been Assistant Professor at the Computer Sciences Department of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a visiting research scholar at the University of Arizona, INRIA and LSIS (CNRS), France. He is author of a book on real-time systems and another on Discrete-Event simulation and over 140 research articles. He is a member of the Real-Time and Distributed systems lab at Carleton University, and one of the investigators in Carleton Center for advanced Simulation and Visualization. He is Associate Editor of the Transactions of the SCS, and the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling. He is a chairman of the DEVS standardization study group (SISO), and Director of the Ottawa Center of The McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences and chair of the Ottawa M&SNet. His current research interests is related with modelling methodologies and tools, parallel/distributed simulation and real-time systems. His e-mail and web addresses are gwainer@sce.carleton.ca and http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer.

The platform proposal will be presented by Stephen Lombardi (a student member of Prof. Wainer's Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab).

• Stephen_Lombardi.ppt: Slides