SBIR-STTR Award

Universal Modeling and Simulation Data Exchange
Award last edited on: 6/21/2002

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Navy
Total Award Amount
$69,900
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
N99-127
Principal Investigator
Bruce H Cottman

Company Information

I-Kinetics Inc

63 South Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803
   (781) 270-1327
   N/A
   www.i-kinetics.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 06
County: Middlesex

Phase I

Contract Number: N00024-99-C-4132
Start Date: 5/14/1999    Completed: 11/14/1999
Phase I year
1999
Phase I Amount
$69,900
The key barrier to realizing new capabilities in Modeling & Simulation (M&S) is integrating existing M&S assets from such valuable resources such as weapon simulations and mission planning data. In practice, almost 100% of M&S systems are custom software driven by domain and mission-specific requirements. Mission changes result in system requirement change and thus integration of new capabilities is the most significant problem. The promise of component-based M&S systems is to enable developers and end-users to "snap together" new applications by mixing and matching external simulation data and components. A major innovation of this effort is the design of universal M&S data exchange language based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The major capabilities of the M&S data exchange language are (1) new M&S language terms can be added without effecting the reliability of existing terms; (2) term structures can be nested to any level of complexity; (3) any M&S data object can contain an optional description of its grammar. Another major innovation dynamic (run-time) transformation of legacy M&S software interfaces into standards-based services. The result is the ability to adapt quickly to different user and mission demands, while achieving reliability through the reuse of verified components.

Keywords:
Modeling And Simulation Language-Based Data Representation Distributed Objects Xml

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