A component-based modeling and simulation supporting environment

Simulation modelers, engineers and managers are faced with new challenges at large-scale complex simulation application development. To reduce the difficulty of developing such simulation applications, the simulation environment is required to be extensible, reusable and composable. In order to promote the reusability from coarse-grained federate to fine-grained components, this paper proposes a modeling and simulation environment which consists of component-based architecture, modeling methods, and simulation services to support and simplify the process of complex simulation application construction. Moreover, a standard process and simulation tools are developed to ensure the rapid and effective development of simulation applications.