Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization Overview

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Simulation Interoperability Standards
OrganizationOverview

• http//www.sisostds.org

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SISO Vision

• SISO is 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.

SISO Mission
SISOs mission is 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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What is SISOs Role?

• Be the Open Community Forum to
• Identify standards that enable interoperability
  and reuse
• Feed back industry needs to sponsors
• Develop, promote, review, accredit, and archive
  standards
• Build community buy-in and grass-roots support
  for, and evangelize standards
• Be the nexus for related and complementary
  products
• Provide a stable, open interface for COTS product
  vendors to develop to (and trust)

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SISO Organizational Structure

• Executive Committee (EXCOM)
• The governing, policy level body that provides
  overall governance and strategic planning for
  SISO
• Conference Committee (CC)
• Provides oversight for SISO conference activities
  and has the primary responsibility of organizing
  the Simulation Interoperability Workshops (SIW)
• Standards Activity Committee (SAC)
• Provides oversight for SISO product development
  and support activities and has primary
  responsibility of overseeing the development and
  support of these products to support
  interoperability and reuse in the MS community
• SISO, Inc.
• A US chartered non-profit corporation that serves
  as the legal entity empowered to enter into
  contracts and other financial agreements as
  required to further the goals of SISO, e.g.
  organize and conduct SIWs

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Conference CommitteeSimulation Interoperability
Behavior Representation in Modeling and
Simulation Workshops

• SISO sponsors three workshops annually to
• Exchange ideas, information, and technology
• Share "lessons learned"
• Identify areas where common standards and
  practices will improve simulation
  interoperability and reuse
• Provide forum for face-to-face meetings of
  standards developers
• Currently, 4 venues held each year
• 3 SIWs
• 1 annual BRIMS workshop (with independent
  workshop committee)

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Simulation Interoperability Workshop User
Community Forums

• Analysis
• Research, Development Engineering
• System Acquisition and Product Development
• Test Evaluation
• Training

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Simulation Interoperability WorkshopSpecialty
Area Tracks and Forums

• Applications Track
• Vehicle Weapons System Modeling
• Logistics
• Command Control Communications Computers
  Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance
  Track
• Command Control/MS Services
• IO-ISR - Information Operations Intelligence
  Surveillance and Reconnaissance
• Distributed Simulation Development Track
• Distributed Simulation Process and Tools
• Synthetic Mission Space Composability
• Verification Validation Accreditation
• Environment Track
• Simulated Natural Environment/Sensor Modeling
• Infrastructure Track
• Communications, Frameworks, and Infrastructure
• Space Track
• Space

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Standards Activity CommitteeHow do Standards
Help?

• Interoperability Standards
• Enable simulation parts to be plugged together
  for rapid assembly of systems. Enable reuse of
  parts developed for one system in another
  application. Enable innovative new parts to
  easily replace obsolete old parts
• Process Standards
• Provide best practices for development and
  execution of distributed simulations
• Accreditation Standards and Practices
• Provide confidence to the user that the assembled
  system is providing meaningful, valid results to
  the degree specified in the accreditation

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Standards Activity CommitteeWhat Products are
Developed

• Balloted Products
• Standards
• Guidance
• Non-balloted Products
• Reference
• Administrative
• SISO Policy
• Open Process
• Consensus Standards
• Right of Appeal

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Standards Activity CommitteeBalloted Products
Development Process (BPDP)

• The BPDP provides direction on the development of
  SISO balloted products
• Built on SISO Policies and Procedures (PP)
• Provides specific SAC guidance
• Non-balloted products are covered by other
  procedures

Adheres to the legal definition of open standard
SISO-ADM-003-2005.1 SISO BPDP
Built on SISO-ADM-002-2006 SISO PP
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Balloted Products Development Process Six Step
Process
SISO-ADM-003-2002 SISO BPDP
SISO-ADM-003-2005.1 SISO BPDP
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Standards Activity CommitteeGroups

• Product Development Groups (PDGs)
• Created as the result of the Product Nomination
  (PN)
• PDGs perform steps 2 3 of the BPDP
• PDG Officers and the SAC perform step 4 of the
  BPDP
• PDGs exist until the product is complete
• Product Support Groups (PSGs)
• Established once a PDG has completed product
  development
• Serve as the interpretations committee for IEEE
  standards
• Responsible for steps 5 6
• Offer continuity and a place for developers and
  users of the standards to
• Ask questions concerning the language used in the
  standard, the intention or result meant by a
  particular action
• Request an explanation of the reasons behind what
  the standard says
• Seek support
• Register change requests for subsequent versions
  of the product

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Product Development Groups (1 of 2)

• Base Object Model (BOM) Specification for Base
  Object Models to facilitate interoperability,
  reusability and composability
• Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML)
  Evaluation of standardization of language for
  interface of C2I systems to simulation systems
• Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) Data
  interface specification for efficient exchange of
  manufacturing life cycle data in a simulation
  environment
• COTS Simulation Package Interoperability (CSPI)
  Interface specification for COTS discrete event
  simulation packages (CSPs)
• Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
  Revision of IEEE 1278 standards
• Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS)
  Developed ISO/IEC 180252005(E) which provides a
  mechanisms to unambiguously specify objects used
  to model environmental concepts
• High Level Architecture (HLA) Evolved Revision
  of IEEE 1516 standards
• Link 11 Simulation Develop standard for
  simulating Link 11 via DIS and HLA
• Link 16 Simulation Develop standard for
  simulating Link 16 via DIS and HLA

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Product Development Groups (2 of 2)

• Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL)
  Evaluation of standardization of language for
  initialization of military simulations
• Realtime Platform Reference (RPR) FOM Standard
  for mapping DIS-based attributes and interactions
  into an HLA-compliant object model
• Simulation Reference Markup Language (SRML)
  Markup language for representing behavior in XML,
  enabling XML documents to execute on the web or
  other distributed environments
• VVA Overlay to FEDEP Overlay to Federation
  Development and Execution Process to apply
  Verification, Validation, and Accreditation
  processes

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Product Support Groups

• Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Capture
  problem statements and change requests for IEEE
  1278 standards

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Standards Activity CommitteeGroups

• Study Groups (SGs)
• Created as the result of a Terms of Reference
  (TOR)
• Chartered to answer questions of interest to the
  MS community
• Have a limited life generally 1 to 2 workshop
  cycles
• Can be a first step to a PDG
• Standing Study Groups (SSGs)
• Created as the result of a Terms of Reference
  (TOR)
• Chartered to
• Represent a functional or national group
• Mature a potential standard
• Potentially to provide support to open-source
  software
• Provide an annual report to the EXCOM through the
  SAC
• Describing their progress over the previous year
• Describing their goals for the following year
• Due 1st September (each year) for consideration
  during the Fall SIW

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Study Groups

• Discrete-Event Systems Specification (DEVS)
  Study the possibility of developing standards for
  a computer processable representation of discrete
  event systems specification
• Generic Methodology for VVA for the Modeling
  Simulation Domain (GM VV)Study a path to the
  creation of an internationally accepted VVA
  standard
• HLA Performance Recommended Practice (HPRP)
  Conduct an investigation on the best practices
  for maximizing High Level Architecture (HLA)
  performance
• Mode 5/S IFF Evaluation of potential approaches
  to simulation of Mode 5/S within DIS and HLA
• SCORM-Sim SG Integration of simulation-based
  learning experiences with SCORM (Shareable
  Content Object Reference Model) environments
• Simulation Conceptual Modeling (SCM) Conducting
  a preliminary investigation on the use of
  conceptual modeling in MS
• Transfer of Control (TC) Evaluation of potential
  approaches to revisions of DIS Transfer of
  Control and HLA Ownership Transfer

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Standing Study Groups

• Australian (AUS) Advocate group for SISO
  controlled simulation standards promotion,
  education. Formal relationship mechanism between
  SISO and SIAA
• Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) Mature
  interface in ground and maritime environments

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Standards Activity CommitteeSponsor/Liaison Roles

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Computer Society
• Standards Activity Board
• IEEE CS SAB
• Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
• High Level Architecture (HLA)
• International Standardization Organization /
  International ElectroTechnical Commission
• Joint Technical Committee 1
• Sub Committee 24
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24
• Working Group 8 on Environmental Representation
• Spatial Reference Model (SRM)
• Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS)
• plus 6 more SEDRIS Specifications

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SISO and SISO Sponsored Standards
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Become a SISO Member

• How does one become a member of SISO?
• Attend a SISO Simulation Interoperability
  Workshop (SIW)
• Membership conferred until end of following
  calendar year
• For those unable to attend the SIWs subscription
  based membership is available (US 45 per year)
• Membership application forms and instruction
  available from SISO web site (www.sisostds.org)

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Benefits of SISO Membership

• Member benefits include
• Voting privileges in SISO elections
• Voting privileges as a member of a SISO Product
  Balloting Group
• Access to SISO Products, Workshop Proceedings,
  and other documents from the SISO Website
• Eligibility to participate in and contribute to
  development of simulation interoperability
  products and guidelines recognized and used
  worldwide by the MS community

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Summary

• SISO provides 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
• SISO Sponsored Conferences
• Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop
• European Simulation Interoperability Workshop
• Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop
• Behavior Representation in Modeling and
  Simulation (BRIMS) Workshop
• SISO Membership about 1000