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Priorities for MS Standards
Panelists
Euro-SIW 17 June 2003
Dr. Andrew Vallerand DND Synthetic Environment
Coordination Office Dilys Grant QinetiQ Björn
Möller Pitch Kunskapsutveckling AB Simone
Youngblood Defense Modeling and Simulation
Office (DMSO) Gunnar Öhlund Defence Materiel
Administration (FMV)
A Distinguished panel of experts from government,
industry, and academia.
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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June 03
Andrew L. Vallerand Ph.D.

• Panelist Biography
• Dr Vallerand is H/DND Synthetic Environment
  Coordination office, a Defence Scientist, member
  of SISO, SCS, Aerospace Medical Association and
  co-Chair of SISO-Canada.
• Perspective on Standards
• In general, DND, and specifically SISO Canada
  will NOT develop NEW standards
• In general we will not lead but implement
  established standards, which are supported by
  Allies and the related published evidence,
  benefits, business case.
• Role and Relationship to Standards Development
  Organizations
• Started to get organized, in terms of empowering
  our DND MS Executive Agents to be part of such
  Stds Dev Org.on behalf of DND.

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Andrew L. Vallerand Ph.D.

• Standards Priorities
• Data management and standard data formats
• SNE, Dynamic SNE and SEDRIS
• Model Driven Architecture or s/w design for
  Reusability
• Composability without compromising
  interoperability, commonality, reusability and
  evolvability
• Access to or development of Published Case
  Studies documenting the ROI of standards or Best
  Practices in MS /SE.

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Dilys Grant

• Panelist Biography
• Employed by QinetiQ, formerly DERA, the UK
  defence research agency, now privatised
• A software engineer/scientist now managing ODIN,
  the UK MOD model of choice for underwater warfare
  modelling.
• Perspective on Standards
• Essential for co-operative effective quality
  modelling
• In practice, do we use them?
• Are they cost effective?
• Role and Relationship to Standards Development
  Organizations
• Personally, none!

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Dilys Grant

• Standards Priorities
• Definition standards are evolving guidelines
  that, when followed, permit the highest quality
  of Modelling and Simulation
• Modelling and Simulation Objective an available,
  adaptable, affordable, usable toolset to
  effectively model the application of interest
• Problems encountered interfacing to other models
• understanding the capability different
  documentation, methodologies, etc
• architecture
• systems computer platform, operating system,
  language
• units
• change control of items that effect the interface
• Standards priorities
• ways to avoid these problems
• effective information exchange -
  interface/communications/interactions
• Standards have to be readable, understandable,
  usable,

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June 03
Björn Möller

• Panelist Biography
• Vice President of Pitch AB, MSc in Computer
  Science and Engineering, 25 years in advanced
  software development in various positions
• Perspective on Standards
• Vendor and consultants on standards based
  products
• European/International
• Multi-industry
• MS integral part of mainstream computing
• Role and Relationship to Standards Development
  Organizations
• Active in SISO IEEE (papers, working groups,
  etc)
• Implementing SISO and IEEE standards
• We are all users of standards directly and
  indirectly

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Björn Möller

• Standards Priorities
• Broader international perspective in standards
  development
• Reach into more domains than defense
• Exchange goals, requirements, current standards,
  experiences and ideas
• Harmonize with commercial standards and
  environments
• Example XML
• Standards for both technology and methodology
• Standards that can be verified
• Standards from other angles
• Examples robustness, fault-tolerance,
  performance
• Ensure both long-term viability and short-term
  practical usefulness
• Standardize the right things

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Simone Youngblood

• Panelist Biography
• Simone Youngblood is a member of the Principal
  Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins
  University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)
  and has served for more than 6 years as the DoD
  VVA focal point in her position as DMSO's VVA
  Technical Director.
• Perspective on Standards
• Know what you mean by standard
• Standards are necessary, but not sufficient
• Develop for the largest viable community
• Standards, not statics
• Dont develop a standard unless you mean it
• Role and Relationship to Standards Development
  Organizations
• Responsible for DoD policy and guidance for VVA
• Submitting a proposal for a product group under
  SISO
• Chairing a group developing a NATO standard on
  VVA of federations

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Simone Youngblood

• Standards Priorities
• Specifications for reuse
• Metadata requirements
• Validation Process Maturity Model
• Best practices
• Framework for VVA of federations
• Conceptual model elements
• Fidelity decomposition

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003
Gunnar Öhlund

• Panelist Biography
• Head of Design, SBA at The Swedish Defence
  Materiel Administration (FMV) Systems Engineering
  department. Responsible for MS RD activities
  also involved in writing the Swedish Armed Forces
  MS Masterplan. Twenty years of experience from
  the defense industry.
• Perspective on Standards
• Very important as a tool for achieving
  interoperability and reuse.
• Not just technical standards. fx. design
  principles need to be standardized.
• Downside is, it takes time and politics and
  procedure might be involved in a negative way.
• Role and Relationship to Standards Development
  Organizations
• Personally a member of INCOSE, SISO and IEEE.
• FMVs active in SSI (Swedish Standards
  Institute), CEN (Committee Europe de
  Normalisasion), ISO (International
  Standardisation Org.) and thru PfP STANAG.

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"Priorities for MS StandardsTuesday, 17 June
2003

• Standards Priorities
• Synthetic Environment.
• SNE (Natural Environment).
• TSE (Human behavior, individual and
  organizational).
• Infrastructure.
• Collaborative Environment.
• PDM (Product Data Models).
• EDM (Enterprise Data Models).
• Principles for modeling.
• Business
• Physical (bodily) representation.
• Behavior, booth human and organizational but also
  the laws of nature.
• Fx. how to separate the physical behavior from
  the tactical behavior in a model.

Gunnar Öhlund
The overall importance is to standardize
principles and design patterns not just
technology.