Base Object Model BOM

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Base Object Model (BOM)
Open Meeting Wednesday, Sept 20, 2000 630 PM
830 PM Biscayne Room
Study Group
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BOM Origination

• FEDEP
• Describes FOM Reuse
• Recommends Reuse of FOM Piece-Parts
• SISO RFOM Study - S98
• Uncovered Formalized BOMs
• BOM SIW Papers
• 98F-SIW-034
• 99S-SIW-115
• 99S-SIW-185
• 99F-SIW-112

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Call To SG

• Recommended by the SAC / CCapproved by EXCOM
• Established SG March 2000
• Explore the potential of BOMs
• Investigate technical and operational issues
  (e.g. How difficult is it to create and use a
  BOM?)
• Develop case for SISO BOM standardization and
  policy (ie. Products)
• Recommended Practice - BOM Methodology
• Reference Products - BOM Components/Packages

For the purpose of facilitating simulation
interoperability through component reuse
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Lets Not Get Strapped Down
Provide a case for SISO BOM standardized and
policy, and facilitate greater reuse within the
HLA community.
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BOM SG TOR Issues To Investigate

• Study Definition.
• Determine level of BOM interest in the SISO
  community.
• Suggest any unique means of acquiring,
  qualifying, maintaining, and distributing BOMs.
• Investigate salient characteristics and unique
  qualities required to describe BOMs (ie.
  meta-data)
• Investigate BOMs capability to satisfy and/or
  augment elements of the FEDEP.
• Explore the various types of BOMs that might be
  used.
• Develop an estimate of resources required to
  support the standardization of a typical BOM
  Reference FOM.
• If additional sponsorship (funding) or sufficient
  volunteers are available, build a prototype BOM
  set.

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BOM SG Schedule

• March 2000
• Initial BOM SG Kick Off at Spring 2000 SIW
• March 2000 - September 2001 -
• SG to meet (via teleconference) bi-monthly
• Develop Strawman Methodology Spec
• Build/Test BOM set (Experiment!)
• April 2000 / October 2000
• Call For Papers
• September 2000 / March 2001
• Interim BOM SG Meetings at Fall 2000 / Spring
  2001 SIW
• Report Status to SAC
• September 2001 -
• Complete SG report
• Present SG Report at March 2001 SIW

Develop Specific Recommendations on How to
Proceed with BOM Development and Use
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BOM SG Involvement

• Contacts
• Paul Gustavson (SG Chair), pgustav_at_dv.synetics.co
  m
• John Hancock, jhancock_at_artistech.com
• Graham Shanks (CC POC), GrahamShanks_at_compuserve.co
  m
• Michael O'Connor (SAC POC)michael.oconnor_at_itt.com
  
• Others
• Judy Schandua (CACI)
• Bob Lutz (JHU APL)
• Chris Stapleton (IST)
• Steve Goss (Synetics)

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Opportunities to Get Involved

• SG Community Membership
• Bi-monthly Telecons
• Workshop Meetings
• Experimentation
• BOM ReflectorSISO-SG-BOM
• SIW Paper Submissions
• BOM Web Site(s)
• www.sisostds.org/stdsdev/bom

PleaseSign In
52 Attendees at KO 10 SG Team Interest 100
Reflector
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Tonights Agenda

• 1830 - Welcome / State of BOM SG
• 1835 - BOM Overview
• 1900 - Paper Summaries
• 00F-SIW-019 Dale Pace
• 00F-SIW-013 Andreas Tolk
• 00F-SIW-121 Lee Lacy
• 1930 - Discussion Panel
• Concepts/Questions from Papers
• Potental BOM Users
• Entertainment / Non-DoD Use Update
• 1516.2 / XML Update
• 2030 - Wrap-Up

New
Chris Stapleton, Michael OConnor, Roy
Scrudder, Michael Myjack, and you!
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BOM Overview
A New Methodology for Simulation Reuse
Are You Ready?
Yes
No
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Paper Summaries

• 00F-SIW-019 Dale Pace
• 00F-SIW-013 Andreas Tolk
• 00F-SIW-121 Lee Lacy

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Panel Questions

• What are the Challenges / Opportunities?
• What are the Benefits? What are the Risks?
• How do we make it Effective?
• What are the Reuseable Assets (meta-data)?
• How to we Capture / Share / Reuse Integration
  Experience
• What is the potential Utility?
• How does it fit with the FEDEP?
• How does it impact 1516.2? How can 1516.2 be
  applied?
• What are some Other Domains of Applicability?
• Are there opportunities for Experimenting /
  Applying BOM Methodology?

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Wrap - Up

• BOMs Go Beyond HLA
• Two Definitions
• HLA BOM
• Simulation Interoperability BOM
• Two BOM Categories
• Interface BOM
• Encapsulated BOM
• How To Build A BOM
• Ways To Use BOMs

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Key SIW Papers

• 98F-SIW-034 BOMs Reusable Component Objects for
  Federation Development
• Explores Concept
• Examines BOM Types
• 99S-SIW-185 BOM Structural Elements
• The complete range of BOM elements and the
  relationships between elements.
• FOM Elements and Meta-Data
• BOM Reuse Style
• 99F-SIW-112 Use Cases A Blueprint Approach for
  Federation Development, Testing and Analysis
• Explores Use Case, and its support for
• BOMs, component based federations
• Requirements documentation and traceability

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BOM - Conceptual Goals

• Encourages Reuse of Simulation Components
• Reduces FOM construction time and effort
• Provides greater FOM flexibility
• Promotes FEDEP automation
• meta-data matching
• incremental/iterative development
• collaboration
• Makes HLA interoperability easier for
• DoD
• Other government
• Non-government applications