CoSe: Collaborative Simulation Environment for Heterogeneous Models

Abstract

Modeling and simulation of complex systems in nature and society usually involves multidisciplinary studies. In many simulation systems, it is necessary to develop models using different modeling languages and tools. As a result, it will be a big challenge in the modeling of the whole system and collaborative calculation of the heterogeneous models. In this paper, we propose a collaborative simulation environment for heterogeneous models (CoSe) to support modeling and simulation for complex systems. Based on our early work of a hierarchical modeling approach, we improve the early synchronous control algorithm and present a hybrid synchronous algorithm. Experiment results and the case study illustrates that CoSe supports both hierarchical modeling for complex systems and efficient collaborative simulation of heterogeneous models with a good scalability.