Forum Outbrief Templates

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2003 Spring SimulationInteroperability Workshop
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RDE Users Forum

• Chair Ralph Weber
• Vice Chair Bret Givens
• Secretary Mark McCall

Total attendance 30-64 Number of Papers
presented 8 1 Joint Sessions 1 Invited
Presentation
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Goals for this Workshop

• Increase focus on RDE user requirements
• Increase visibility of User track
• Coordinate with other users fora to determine
  common interests
• Activate RDE User community to sponsor new
  activity
• Actively solicit community views on the viability
  of User Community Track

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Lunch
Break
Break
Joint RDE-TE
Stolen Time
Planning RDE
Results
New Ideas
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Key Points

• There is some excellent work going on in the RDE
  community. But the USER community was hurt by
  the loss of two hours.
• RDE will sponsor a Study Group for a
  Message-Based RTI Protocol Draft TOR submitted
  by 15 Apr 2003.
• Follow up paper on Model Driven Architecture.
• The NAIC invited presentation showed some new
  ways to approach simulation.

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There is some excellent work going on in the RDE
community.

• Explanation RDE took an action in the Fall to
  reform the way that we did business. This
  resulted in real, actionable issues for the SISO
  community.
• Recommendation We will continue to pursue
  excellence in our papers. Starting with the Fall
  CFP.
• The RDE Secretary will publish the other actions
  on the RDE reflector.
• We need our two hours back! The level of
  enthusiasm of the USER community demands at LEAST
  one whole day. Move the SAC Plenary to Monday.

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RDE will sponsor a Study Group for a
Message-Based RTI Protocol

• Explanation An open-source, message-based RTI
  may present some definite advantages to the RDE
  community. General Dynamics has done some
  preliminary work that it has agreed to present to
  an SG as a starting point. The authors of the
  paper have recruited some assistance from the RDE
  community. They will prepare their TOR before 15
  April 2003.
• Recommendation Support the TOR at the SAC and
  EXCOM.

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Draft TOR introduction

• Message-Based RTI Study Group
• The Message Based Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI)
  is an open implementation of the High Level
  Architecture (HLA) RTI. Message formats and data
  handling algorithms for RTI services are
  encapsulated in an open protocol. The Study
  Group will investigate the applicability of the
  Message-Based RTI protocol, providing an
  alternative to proprietary RTIs and promoting
  open RTI Research and Development (RD). The
  Study Group will solicit government and academia
  for feasibility and prototyping efforts. A Study
  Group Findings Outbrief and draft of the
  Message-Based RTI Protocol will be presented at
  the Spring 2004 SIW.

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Follow up paper on Model Driven Architecture.

• Explanation After the Fall SIW, RDE solicited
  follow-up papers to help direct our thought
  processes. The paper made recommendations on a
  proposal on how to apply MDA to HLA.
• Recommendation The authors will submit the
  paper and proposal to the RDE reflector for
  community wide comment and refinement.

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The NAIC invited presentation showed some new
ways to approach simulation.

• Explanation Authors have used COTS
  (MATLAB/SIMULINK) to allow translation from paper
  source data to models which can be used for
  simulation.
• Recommendation We will publish contact
  information on the RDE reflector. We invite the
  authors (or other authors with similar
  approaches) to provide follow-up paper in the
  fall.

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Plans for Fall 03

• Increase focus on RDE user requirements
• Format
• Combination of papers and workshop/panel (if we
  have a whole day)
• Morning panel and papers concentrating on
  specific topic
• Afternoon panel and workshop concentrating on
  specific topic