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The increasing complexity of modern systems makes their design, development and operation extremely challenging and therefore new Systems Engineering and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) techniques, methods and tools are emerging, also to benefit from distributed simulation environments. In this context, one of the most mature tools is the IEEE 1516-2010—Standard for M&S High Level Architecture (HLA). However, building and maintaining distributed simulations components, based on the IEEE 1516-2010 standard, is still a challenging and costly task. To ease the development of full-fledged HLA-based simulations, the paper proposes the MONADS method that, according to the model-driven systems engineering paradigm, allows one to generate the HLA-based simulation code from SysML models by the use of a chain of model-to-model and model-to-text transformations. The effectiveness of the method is shown through a case study that concerns an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) approaching and docking to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Bocciarelli, P., D’Ambrogio, A., Falcone, A., Garro, A., Giglio, A. (2016). A Model-Driven Approach to Enable the Distributed Simulation of Complex Systems. In: Auvray, G., Bocquet, JC., Bonjour, E., Krob, D. (eds) Complex Systems Design & Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26109-6_13
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