An integrated development environment for PMESII model authoring, integration, validation, and debugging

Nicholas J. Pioch; Corey Lofdahl; Michael Sao Pedro; Basil Krikeles; Liam Morley

doi:10.1117/12.719653

10 May 2007 An integrated development environment for PMESII model authoring, integration, validation, and debugging

Nicholas J. Pioch, Corey Lofdahl, Michael Sao Pedro, Basil Krikeles, Liam Morley

Proceedings Volume 6564, Modeling and Simulation for Military Operations II; 65640Z (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719653
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

To foster shared battlespace awareness in Air Operations Centers supporting the Joint Forces Commander and Joint Force Air Component Commander, BAE Systems is developing a Commander's Model Integration and Simulation Toolkit (CMIST), an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for model authoring, integration, validation, and debugging. CMIST is built on the versatile Eclipse framework, a widely used open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks that enable development of tools for building, deploying, and managing software. CMIST provides two distinct layers: 1) a Commander's IDE for supporting staff to author models spanning the Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure, Information (PMESII) taxonomy; integrate multiple native (third-party) models; validate model interfaces and outputs; and debug the integrated models via intuitive controls and time series visualization, and 2) a PMESII IDE for modeling and simulation developers to rapidly incorporate new native simulation tools and models to make them available for use in the Commander's IDE. The PMESII IDE provides shared ontologies and repositories for world state, modeling concepts, and native tool characterization. CMIST includes extensible libraries for 1) reusable data transforms for semantic alignment of native data with the shared ontology, and 2) interaction patterns to synchronize multiple native simulations with disparate modeling paradigms, such as continuous-time system dynamics, agent-based discrete event simulation, and aggregate solution methods such as Monte Carlo sampling over dynamic Bayesian networks. This paper describes the CMIST system architecture, our technical approach to addressing these semantic alignment and synchronization problems, and initial results from integrating Political-Military-Economic models of post-war Iraq spanning multiple modeling paradigms.

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Nicholas J. Pioch, Corey Lofdahl, Michael Sao Pedro, Basil Krikeles, and Liam Morley "An integrated development environment for PMESII model authoring, integration, validation, and debugging", Proc. SPIE 6564, Modeling and Simulation for Military Operations II, 65640Z (10 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719653

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