HIMES: HLA Interface for Mathematical and Engineering Simulation Tools

Evolving technology and large scale simulations that require high computational power made distributed computing indispensable. Developing distributed simulations has numerous advantages, such as time efficiency that is gained by parallel development, and loosely coupled subsystems that can be reused in different projects. Therefore, some interoperability and reusability standards have been proposed in last decades. High level architecture (HLA) and distributed interactive simulation (DIS) are the most known interoperability standards. Although this kind of standards are well-known and widely used by especially software and computer science researchers, other disciplines do not use them so often, because popular engineering simulation tools do not provide an interface to those standards. In this paper, we present a distributed simulation interface that has been developed using a few open source software. The interface that we propose can connect model based simulation development tools with HLA standard.