2000 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop Newcomers Forum

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2000 Fall SimulationInteroperability
WorkshopNewcomers Forum
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New Comers Forum
Session 1 SISO SIW ORIENTATION 0830 - 0930 Mr.
Bill Tucker Manager, Modeling
Simulation Technology The Boeing
Company, Phantom Works Session 1 SAC Overview
0930 - 1000 Ms. Phil Zimmerman SAC
Member 1000 - 1030 BREAK Session 2 INTRODUCTION
TO HLA (Cont.) 1030 - 1200 Ms. Phil
Zimmerman High Level Architecture
Program Manager Defense Modeling
Simulation Office
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Roadmap

• Principles
• Mission, Vision Principles
• Structure
• Participants

• SIW Overview
• Goals
• Structure
• Infrastructure

• Housekeeping

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SISOs Mission
To provide an open forum that promotes the
interoperability and reuse of models and
simulations through the exchange of ideas, the
examination of technologies, and the development
of standards.
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Vision Statement
SISO is The organization dedicated to the
promotion of modeling and simulation
interoperability and reuse for the benefit of
diverse MS communities, including developers,
procurers, and users world-wide.
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Operating Goals

• Seek broad involvement from all elements of the
  MS community (including non-DoD applications)
• Build on the High Level Architecture, the HLA
  Interface Specification, and the Federation
  Development Process Model
• Provide a forum for the exchange of new ideas and
  improved methods across MS domains
• Generate support for simulation interoperability
  and reuse through education, communication, and
  development of consensus across the MS community
  
• Support the development of useful standards,
  practices, and guides for various elements of the
  MS community

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Principals

• Responsiveness Responsibility
• Responsive to serve communities
• Provide products and services
• Promote interoperability
• Minimize possible impact on
• existing applications
• Quality
• Technical excellence
• Highest quality work
• Fairness
• Right to appeal at all levels

• Openness
• Open forum
• Involve every participant
• Solutions by consensus
• Accessible policies and procedures
• Discipline
• Due process
• Clear policies and procedures
• Consensus
• Best addresses broadest possible spectrum of
  members needs and concerns.

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Implementing The Vision
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SISO Operational Activities
Process Organization Management
Standards Activity
Conference Activity
Support Activity
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Process Organization Management - EXCOM
Process Organization Management

• Overall governance
• Strategic Planning
• Policy Development and Oversight
• Financial Management
• Process Management

Standards Activity
Conference Activity
Support Activity
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Standards Activity - SAC
Process Organization Management

• Product Development Management
• Standardization of Technologies supporting
  Interoperability
• IEEE Standards Liaison

Standards Activity
Conference Activity
Support Activity
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Conference ActivityConference Committee
Process Organization Management

• Workshops Conference Management
• Cross-roads Development
• Standards Development Participation
• Community Education Information Exchange

Conference Activity
Standards Activity
Support Activity
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Support Activity

• Assistance for Workshop/Conference organization
  and conduct
• Assistance for Process and Organization
  Management Activities
• Assistance for Standards Activity development of
  Standards and Related Products

Process Organization Management
Conference Activity
Standards Activity
Support Activity
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World of SISO
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Policies and Procedures

• States SISOs operating principals
• Defines structure and responsibilities of
  organization and its components
• - Conference activity
• - Standards development activity
• - Configuration management
• - Elections
• Establishes policy for communications and
  relationships with other organizations
• Supplements and defines policy for openness in
  communications

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Membership

• To qualify
• Attend at least one conference per year
• Or, pay a nominal fee each year
• Membership provides
• Right to vote
• Right to run for office
• Access to SISO web-site documents - a powerful
  research and reference library
• Make sure your contact information is correct!

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Election Rules
Results Announced
Balloting
Nomination Period
Election Announcement

• Election Committee established at start of annual
  cycle
• Open positions announced via ADMIN reflectors
• Both voters and candidates must establish
  membership prior to election (SISO and PRP)

• Candidates self nominate during 3 weeks
  Nomination period.

• Balloting Conducted via Elections Link on Web
  Page - Enter PIN, receive ballot, vote for N----

• Results validated by Election Committee -
  announced via mail reflector

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SISO Election Process

• Self-nomination Process
• Election Committee posts call for
  self-nominations for each open position.
• Candidates post their qualifications via Web page
• Voting Eligibility
• All current SISO members are eligible to vote
• PRP election eligibility limited to those members
  subscribed to relevant SISO reflectors
• Web Based Voting Process http//www.sisostds.org
• Voter enters email address and SISO membership
• number (They must match!)
• System generates Ballot for voters eligible
  elections
• Complete ballot must be cast in a single Web
  visit
• Summary of ballot emailed to voter

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Committee Elections(EXCOM, CC, SAC and PRP)

• Each year, in May/June
• One-third of EXCOM members elected to 3-year
  terms
• One-half of CC and SAC members elected to 2-year
  terms
• All PRP members elected to 1-year terms
• Elections are simultaneous.
• Term limits EXCOM, SAC, and CC maximum of two
  consecutive terms. PRPs do not have term limits

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Conference Committee
Miller, Duncan 9/01 Chair Knight, Sam 9/02 Vice
Chair Solick, Susan 9/02 Secretary/Analysis
Forum Lacetera, Joe 9/01 (res.) C4ISR
Track McKeeby, Dave X Vice Chair, SAC Neff,
Kim 9/01 Environment Schiavone,
Dan 9/02 Non-HLA Applications Severinghaus,
Rick 9/02 Training Forum, User Track Shanks,
Graham 9/00 Environment Track Shockley,
John 9/02 Infrastructure Forum Tucker,
William 9/00 Fed Dev Track Hofer, Ron 9/02 User
Track, International Bruce Fairchild A
9/01 TBD Sullivan, Ken A 9/01 C4ISR
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Standards Activity Committee
Myjak, Michael 9/02 Chair Bevan,
Michelle 9/01 Briggs, Keith 9/00 Knight,
Sam X CC Vice Chair Lightner, Mike 9/01
McKeeby, David 9/02 Vice Chair Mullins,
Tom 9/01 Secretary Nagele, Paul 9/00 O
Conner, Mike 9/01 Zimmerman, Phil 9/01 Bouwens,
Chris 9/02 Gravitz, Peggy 9/02 Little,
Reed 9/02 Wiehagen, Gene 9/01
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Executive Committee
Katz, Warren 9/02 Chair Lunceford,
Dell 9/01 Vice Chair/Secretary Miller,
Duncan X CC Chair Myjak, Michael X SAC
Chair Bouwens, Chris 9/00 Vice Chair Ryan,
Mick 9/02 Shea, Lorraine A (9/00) Shiflett,
James E. 9/03 Smith, Col. Mark 9/00 Waite,
Bill 9/03 Lacetera, Joe 9/03 Walters, Chuck A
(9/01) Jones, Reuben A (9/01) Stapleton,
Chris A (9/01) Mattson, Anders A (9/01) A
Appointed, X Ex Officio
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SISO Standards Development

• SISO currently develops Standards through IEEE as
  well as through our own SISO Product processes.
• Currently investigating becoming a Standards
  Development Organization - Seeking sponsorship
  from the United Nations chartered International
  Standards Organization

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Standards Development

• Product Development Groups (SAC Sponsored)
• High Level Architecture
• SEDRIS
• Real-Time Platform Reference Federation Object
  Model
• FEDEP (proposed)
• Study Groups (Jointly Sponsored by SAC and CC)
• Base Object Model
• C4I Simulation Interfaces
• Economics of MS

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IEEE 1516 (HLA) Standards
The three documents that make up the High Level
Architecture Standards have been completed have
successfully completed IEEE Standards Association
Balloting.
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Real-Time Platform Reference Federation Object
Model

• RPR FOM is a Reference FOM to serve the Real-time
  Platform simulation community. It is designed to
  capture the functionality of the IEEE 1278.1 (aka
  DIS) standards.. Version 1 complete - SISO
  Standard. Version 2 in Work Implements 1278.1a

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Synthetic Environment Data Representation
Interchange Specification (SEDRIS)

• This set of standards is being developed to
  dramatically improve simulation interoperability,
  by providing common environments for each element
  of the Federation.
• The current active standards development groups
  are
• Environmental Data Coding Specification SDG
• Spatial Reference Model SDG

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Federation Development Process (FEDEP)

• This proposed standards development group will
  convert the existing DMSO Federation Development
  Process Model into an industry standard.

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Study Groups

• Base Object Model - A Promising approach to
  reuse of HLA object model components.
• Economics of MS - Establish value of MS in
  marketplace
• C4I - Establish basis for standard approaches to
  integrate simulations and operational C4I systems
• Naval Training Meta-FOM Study Group (new)
• Future of Modeling and Simulation (new)

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Conference CommitteeSponsored Events

• 2000 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop.
• 10th Annual Computer Generated Forces and
  Behavioral Representation Conference. Norfolk,
  VA May 8-10, 2001
• 2001 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop.
• 2001 Euro-SIW June 26-28 2001, London

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Roadmap

• SISO Overview
• Mission, Vision Principals
• Structure
• Participants

• SIW Overview
• Goals
• Structure
• Infrastructure

• Housekeeping

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Workshop Structure
Infrastructure
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Conference Forums - General MS Community

• Sunday Tutorials
• DEVS/HLA
• SEDRIS
• SPEEDES
• Adapting your Simulation for use in multiple
  federations
• HLA Tools Process
• Training Forums
• Newcomers
• Standards Activity Committee Status report
• Federation Performance
• Opening Plenary
• LTG Paul Kern
• Dr. V. Garber
• Others
• Closing Plenary
• Workshop Outbrief

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User Community Forums(Rick Severinghaus/Ron
Hofer)

• Analysis Forum (ANL)

• Research, Development, and Engineering Forum (RDE)

• Test and Evaluation Forum (TE)

• Training Forum (Train)

• Marine Design Automation Software Interoperability

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Specialty Area ForumsSam Knight

• Infrastructure Track
• Run-Time Infrastructure and Communications Forum
• Live Interaction Form
• Federation Development Track
• Federation Development Process Forum
• Exercise Management Forum
• Environment Track
• Simulated Natural Environment Forum
• Sensor Modeling Forum
• Command/Control/Communications/Intelligence/Survei
  llance/ Reconnaissance Track
• C4I Forum
• Information Operations Forum
• Applications Track
• Federation Implementers Forum
• Vehicle/Weapon System Modeling Forum
• Human Decision-Making and Behavior Representation
  Forum
• Logistics Forum

• VVA Forum
• Testing Forum (Ending)
• Live Interaction Forum
• Sensor Modeling Forum

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Virtual Forums

• Simulation Based Acquisition
• Non-HLA Applications
• Simulation Interoperability Through Components
• Real Time Platform Reference Federation Object
  Model
• All meet Monday _at_ 700 PM
• Federation performance
• Meets Monday _at_ 830 AM

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Workshop Schedule

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Friday
Wednesday/Thursday
Tuesday
Monday
Workshop Outbrief
New Comers Orientation
AM
Federation Performance
SAC
Plenary


PM
USER Community Forums
Specialty Area Forums
International
Economics of MS
Social Virtual Forums
SISC/SAC BOM, Study Groups
EVE
Demos, Displays, Lunch Evening
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Roadmap

• Principles
• Mission, Vision Principals
• Structure
• Participants

• SIW Overview
• Goals
• Structure
• Infrastructure

• Housekeeping

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Housekeeping Details

• Finding help and information
• Decoding ribbon colors
• Questionnaires and quality control
• Appropriate attire

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SISO Infrastructure Email

• Subscribers to Forum reflectors will receive
  SISO, SIW, and SAC ADMIN announcements and will
  be eligible to vote in that Forum
• Subscribers to any list eligible to vote in any
  Committee Election
• Open reflectors, SISO-DISCUSS, and SAC-DISCUSS,
  for broad interest discussions
• Calls for volunteers for Standards Development
  Groups issued via Forum reflectors
• Subscribe via the SISO Web page
  lthttp//www.sisostds.orggt
• Some reflectors are private. Not everyone can
  subscribe or post
• Archives are available for all reflectors.
  Anyone can review most recent 60 - 90 days of
  activity on any reflector
• Digest Mode Available

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SISO Reflectors
SISO - EXCOM SISO - ADMIN SISO - DISCUSS SISO
- ENUM SISO - PRO SISO - RPR
EXCOM
SISO - SAC SAC - COM SAC - DISCUSS SAC -
ADMIN SAC - HLA - DGAR SAC - SDG - HLA
SISO - CC FORUM Reflectors
SAC
CC
PRIVATE CONFERENCES SISO Send Only
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Workshop Reflectors
SIW-ADMIN
SIW - PRP
USER
SIW-FED
SIW-ENV
Other
SIW-APP
Infrastructure
SIW-RTI
SIW-ANAL
SIW-PROC
SIW-SNE
SIW-C4ISR
SIW-IMPL
SIW- ENTERTAINMENT
SIW-LIVE
SIW-RDE
SIW-EMF
SIW-SNE-DD
SIW-VEH
SIW-TE
SIW-BEH
SIW-SENS
SIW-VVA
SIW-SEC
SIW - RFOM
SIW-STT
SIW-LOG
SIW-TEST
For these and other SISO reflectors go to
lthttp//www.sisostds.orggtand select Reflectors
SIW-SLT
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Finding Help and Information

• First, check your Workshop Program
• Check Information desk monitor for announcements
  and changes
• For questions about SISO organization, policy,
  and procedures ...
• Check Web site lthttp//www.sisostds.orggt
• Ask EXCOM/Conference Committee/SAC Members
• For help in signing up for SISO and SIW email
  reflectors...
• Check Web site lthttp//www.sisostds.orggt
• For general assistance at the Workshop ...
• Ask any of the Support Group staff (wearing golf
  shirts)
• Ask at registration desk

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Badge Ribbon Colors
EXCOM
Red
Conference Committee
Orange
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Questionnaires and Evaluation Forms

• Please help the Conference Committee plan the
  Spring SIW by
• Filling out the demographic questionnaire
  (distributed at plenary)
• Filling out an Evaluation Form for each Forum you
• attend (available in each Forum venue)
• We need your frank opinions to improve the
  Workshop and SISO
• Place suggestions in suggestion boxes or address
  them to Committee Members

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What We Need From You

• Active Participation

• Listen

• Consider

• Discuss

• Write

• Vote

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Proper Workshop Attire
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Back Up Charts
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SEDRIS
SAC Technical Area Director Keith Briggs

• Currently 4 proposals being reviewed by SISO for
  possible standard/product development
• Synthetic Natural Environment Conceptual
  Reference Model
• Adoption of EO/IR Data Dictionary
• Spatial Reference Model (SRM)
• SNE Coding Standard (SCS)
• Discussion Monday _at_ 700

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RTI Interoperability
Chair Michael Myjak

• This Study Group was formed to develop an
  understanding of the requirements and potential
  solutions for RTI to RTI interoperability and its
  impact on HLA's interoperability.
• Interim Report due March 1999.
• Discussion Wednesday _at_ 600

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Analysis Forum (ANL)
ANL is concerned with interoperability issues and
uses of distributed models and simulations for
analysis. ANL encourages the education of the
analysis community about Advanced Distributed
Simulation (ADS) and of the users of ADS about
analysis. ANL will conduct two focus sessions at
the 1999 Spring SIW. One will focus on data
collection and the other will focus on the role
of the analyst in the HLA Federation Development
and Execution Process (FEDEP). Topics of interest
include
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Research, Development, and Engineering Forum(RDE)
RDE is concerned with use of distributed
simulation to evaluate alternative designs and
research concepts as well as to support
engineering decisions within the RDE community.
RDE is specifically interested in the practical
results from RDE users' experiences gained in
implementing HLA-compliant simulations.
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Test and Evaluation Forum (TE)
The Test and Evaluation Forum is for people,
agencies, and projects using advanced distributed
simulation (ADS) in test and evaluation. Papers
presented in the TE Forum describe lessons
learned from actual implementation of ADS in TE
planning considerations and the identification
of specific needs that the TE community might
have for ADS, including any specific requirements
relating to HLA. We are also interested in
incorporating live entities with virtual and
constructive simulations, and with linking
historically standalone TE facilities, such as
HWIL, ISTF, and laboratories.
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Small Team Training Forum (STT)
STT focuses on the planning, management,
requirements, and use of simulations that provide
individual, sub-team, and team training to system
operators, team leaders, tactical decision
makers, and other hands-on users including
applications of both live and virtual simulation
in training.
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Staff-Level Training Forum (SLT)
SLT provides a setting for discussion of issues
of simulation in training Category III and
Category II staffs. We have a special interest
in the user perspective, but welcome and
encourage participation by any whose interests
and expertise may contribute to improvements or
refinements in the state of the art.
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Infrastructure Track
Run-Time Infrastructure and Communications Forum
(RTI) Keith Briggs Simulation practitioners
should consider RTIC for the presentation of
work related to the use and implementation of the
HLA Runtime Infrastructure (RTI)
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Infrastructure Track
Live Interaction Forum Michael Wesdell The Live
Interaction Forum provides an opportunity for
those interested in live simulations to exchange
information and share experiences. The Forum is
focused on the issues associated with simulations
that depend upon live participants and the
associated simulation instrumentation. Included
areas of interest are architecture, protocol,
instrumentation, simulation management, and
numerous technical issues that effect stand-alone
live simulations, as well as the integration of
live simulations with virtual and constructive
simulations for training, test and evaluation,
and other applications.
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Environment Track
Simulated Natural Environment Forum (SNE)
Kimberly Neff Concerned with the common
representation of the land, ocean, atmosphere,
surf zone and space environment in an
interoperable simulation. The 1999 Spring Forum
sessions will focus on a shared, correlated
natural environment representation as the
foundation of an interoperable simulation.
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Environment Track
Sensor Forum (SENS) (co-administered by C4ISR)
Annette Janett
Bridges the environmental and mission/system-rela
ted areas. SENS focuses on interoperability in
an integrated, end-to-end approach, defining
requirements and addressing issues of
interoperability, fidelity, correlation,
representation, recommended practices,
interfaces and interchange mechanisms for sensors
used by the SISO community. Key functional
systems addressed include navigation, search and
target acquisition, reconnaissance, surveillance,
intelligence, emissions, tracking, IR search and
track, fire control and missiles systems
(detection, warning, and design) and guidance.
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Federation Development Track
Federation Development Process Forum (PROC)
Robert Lutz PROC is focused on the process of
federation development and execution. The primary
purpose of this Forum is to facilitate the
long-term evolution of a generalized lifecycle
process model for HLA federations, and to assist
in the establishment of SISO standards that
support this process. Exercise Management Forum
(EMF) Ralph Whitney EMF discusses tools for
automating the evolving Federation Development
and Execution Process. The Forum proposes
functionality and interface standards for tools
in areas such as Planning, Initialization,
Monitoring, Runtime Controls, Data Collection,
Data Analysis, Visualization, and After Action
Reviews.
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Federation Development Track (cont.)
Verification, Validation Accreditation Forum
(VVA) Simone Youngblood The VVA Forum is
focused on methodologies, procedures, and
associated techniques which may be used to
establish credibility of federations. The VVA
objectives emphasize quality (e.g., building in
authoritative representations and behaviors) and
risk management. This forum will support the
development and evolution of VVA guidance (in
the form of standards, recommended practices,
and/or guides) which supplement the federation
development/application lifecycle process model
documentation. Testing Forum (TEST) Kevin
Mullally The Testing Forum will discuss
techniques, tools, drivers, and methodologies for
testing as it applies to HLA, SISO Standards, and
the transition of legacy simulations to SISO
standards.
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COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS,
SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE AND INTELLIGENCE
(C4ISR) TRACK
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and
Intelligence Forum (C4I) Bill Sudnikovich The
C4I Forum is concerned with the interoperability
of simulations that represent systems and
activities in the following areas Command and
control Realistic representation of
communications Intelligence collection,
processing and dissemination Information
warfare Interfaces between live C4I systems and
simulations Implications of HLA and the DoD
Joint Technical Architecture Methodology for
creating object representations from CMMS
information. Sensor Forum (SENS) (co-administered
by ENVIRONMENT) SENS is an interdisciplinary
forum that spans the Environment and C4I areas.
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APPLICATIONS TRACK
Federation Implementers' Forum (IMPL) Dennis
Cottongim IMPL addresses the resources,
processes, and issues encountered in developing
Federates and Federations. Papers should
emphasize generally applicable implementation-leve
l details (i.e., how does it work, how is it
used, how can it improve). Timely lessons
learned from using the latest HLA-related
developments are of particular interest.
Vehicle/Weapon System Modeling Forum (VWS)
Tim Jahren The primary focus of VWS is on the
development and reuse of weapon/vehicle system
simulations. Included in the weapon/vehicle
system class of simulations are all classes of
manned and unmanned weapon and vehicle systems
that operate in space, air, ground, and sea
environments. VWS addresses the representation
of vehicle/weapon systems in constructive,
virtual, and live simulations at engineering,
engagement, mission, and campaign levels of
aggregation.
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APPLICATIONS TRACK (cont.)
Human Decision-Making and Behavior Representation
Forum (BEH) David Kwak BEH is concerned with
all those issues that affect the representation
of human behaviors in models and simulations.
These issues range from providing the appropriate
interfaces to live humans so that they may act as
entities of the simulation, to automating human
decision-making processes at all levels.
Logistics Forum (LOG) Dave Prochnow LOG
focuses on issues related to all aspects of
logistics simulation, to include supply chain
logistics, logistics business practices, and the
representation of logistics systems at the
national, strategic, operational, and tactical
military levels, as well as appropriate aspects
of coalition partner, host nation, and/or
non-military/commercial logistics.
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SISO Structure
Ensures SISO workshops and standards serve
broader MS community goals
Executive Committee
Standards Activity Committee
Conference Committee
Develops standards that promote MS
interoperability
Simulation Interoperability Workshop
SISO Community
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Basic SISO Election ProcessNominations

• Open Positions Announced (via Admin Reflector)
• Responsible SISO committee announces positions
  open for election and publishes the election
  schedule
• Candidate self-nomination (via Web page)
• Candidates post qualifications and summaries of
  their proposed approach to office being sought

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Basic SISO Election ProcessVoting

• Voter eligibility based on current subscriptions
  to SISO email reflectors
• Voter declaration (via Elections link on Web
  page)
• Registration of intent to vote in a particular
  election
• PIN issued for electronic balloting good for one
  election cycle
• Electronic balloting (via Elections link on Web
  page)
• Enter PIN, vote for N of the following
  candidates...
• Valid election requires electronic ballots from
  at least 50 of declared voters

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Main Committee Elections

• Held once per year, in May/July
• One-third of EXCOM members elected to 3-year
  terms
• One-half of CC and SAC members elected to 2-year
  terms
• Voter eligibility subscription to any SISO email
  reflector. See the Reflectors link on
  http//www.sisostds.org
• Term limits no more than two consecutive terms
  on same committee

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Forum Planning and Review Panel (PRP) Elections

• Held twice per year, in April/May and
  October/November
• One-half of PRP members elected to 1-year terms
  (two Workshops)
• Voter eligibility subscription to the email
  reflector of the corresponding Forum. See the
  Reflectors link on
  http//www.sisostds.org
• Term limits none

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Next Election Cycle
EXCOM and PRPs Nominations March 27 April
17 Voting April 24 May 8 Results May
15 CC Nominations May 1 May 22 Voting May 29
June 12 Results June 19 SAC Nominations June
5 June 26 Voting July 3 July
17 Results July 24
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Fidelity Experimentation Study Group (ISG)
Chair David Gross

• The Fidelity ISG has had the objective of
  leveraging the current interest and excitement in
  describing, quantifying, and using simulation
  fidelity, particularly in the context of current
  initiatives such as HLA and SBA. Emphasis was on
  experimentation with the published comments..
• Final briefing Wednesday 700