DevsServer: ambient intelligence and DEVS modeling based simulation server
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Abstract
To improve disease surveillance systems (DSS) with faster and accurate outbreak detection and epidemics propagation capabilities, the availability of fine-tuned models is required along with the design of server based solution that simulate the effects of public health authorities' measures, and integrate Ambient Intelligence (AmI) capabilities to semantize epidemic models. Hosting Discrete Event System Specifications (DEVS) models, these AmI servers and their communication protocols are different, miscellaneous and require interoperability. The Triple Space Computing (TSC) paradigm addresses interoperability by sharing information represented in a semantic format through a common virtual space. In this this paper we present DevsServer, a fully distributed TSC simulation server solution (middleware) designed to meet the needs of parallel and distributed discrete event simulation. DevsServer defines an SOA (service oriented architecture) interface for the TSC operations. This interface convinces with DEVS formalism and focuses on simplicity, conviviality and modularity, so that a single or many simulations that support different models can still interact.
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April 2016
104 pages
ISBN:9781510823198
- General Chairs:
- Saurabh Mittal,
- Jose Luis Risco Martin,
- Priscilla Elfrey,
- Program Chairs:
- Deniz Cetinkaya,
- Rick Severinghaus
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Published: 03 April 2016
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