Network-Centric Simulation Using NCSOS

Abstract

The Network-Centric Simulation Object System (NCSOS) is a prototype object- oriented, discrete-event simulation environ ment that was designed using a network-centric computing architecture. Developed primarily for use as a manufac turing system simulation environment, simulation models in NCSOS incorporate a mixture of both local and network-based simulation objects. Using NCSOS, a simulationist builds models by selecting a collection of manufacturing workstations. While some of the simulation workstation objects are located on the computer's local file system, the other workstation objects are located on a remote computer connected to the Internet. This distribution of objects is the innovative approach of network-centric simulation modeling using our environ ment. In this article, we present our simulation environment that was developed in Java using a network-centric architecture.