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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................................... iv ÖZ ........................................................................................................................................................... v DEDICATION ....................................................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................................... vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................... viii LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................................. xi LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................................. xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .............................................................................................................. xiv CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 1 1.1. The Context ................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. The Problem .................................................................................................................. 7 1.3. The Solution Approach ................................................................................................. 8 1.4. Research Strategy ........................................................................................................ 11 1.5. Organization of the Thesis .......................................................................................... 11 2. RELATED RESEARCH .................................................................................................... 13 2.1. The Simulation Development Process and Conceptual Modeling .............................. 13 2.2. Conceptual Modeling Approaches, Frameworks and Methods .................................. 16 2.2.1. Federation Development and Execution Process (FEDEP) ................................ 16 2.2.2. Synthetic Environment Development and Exploitation Process (SEDEP) ......... 21 2.2.3. Conceptual Models of the Mission Space (CMMS) ........................................... 24 2.2.4. Defense Conceptual Modeling Framework (DCMF) .......................................... 25 2.3. Base Object Model (BOM) ......................................................................................... 28 2.3.1. Model Identification ............................................................................................ 29 2.3.2. Conceptual Model ............................................................................................... 30 2.3.3. Model Mapping ................................................................................................... 31 2.3.4. Object Model Definition ..................................................................................... 31 2.3.5. BOM Integration ................................................................................................. 32 viii
2.4. Summary ..................................................................................................................... 32 3. KAMA APPROACH .......................................................................................................... 34 3.1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 34 3.2. The Notation ............................................................................................................... 35 3.2.1. Design Overview ................................................................................................ 35 3.2.1. KAMA and UML ................................................................................................ 37 3.3. The Conceptual Modeling Process Definition ............................................................ 38 3.3.1. Acquire knowledge about the mission space ...................................................... 39 3.3.2. Analyze the information sources and search for similar conceptual models ....... 41 3.3.3. Define conceptual model elements and develop conceptual model diagrams .... 41 3.3.4. Review the conceptual model ............................................................................. 42 3.3.5. Refine the conceptual model ............................................................................... 43 3.3.6. Verify and validate the conceptual model ........................................................... 43 3.3.7. Update the conceptual model with respect to the V&V findings ........................ 43 3.4. The KAMA Tool ......................................................................................................... 43 3.4.1. High Level Functional Requirements ................................................................. 43 3.4.2. Architecture of the Tool ...................................................................................... 47 3.4.3. Usage of the Tool ................................................................................................ 48 4. THE KAMA MODELING NOTATION ............................................................................ 49 4.1. Overview ..................................................................................................................... 49 4.1.1. KAMA Architecture ........................................................................................... 49 4.1.2. KAMA Metamodel ............................................................................................. 50 4.1.3. How the KAMA Notation is Described .............................................................. 51 4.2. Foundation Package .................................................................................................... 52 4.2.1. Overview ............................................................................................................. 52 4.2.2. Abstract Syntax ................................................................................................... 52 4.2.3. Class Descriptions ............................................................................................... 55 4.3. Mission Space Package ............................................................................................... 58 4.3.1. Overview ............................................................................................................. 58 4.3.2. Abstract Syntax ................................................................................................... 58 4.3.3. Abstract Syntax ................................................................................................... 59 4.3.4. Class Descriptions ............................................................................................... 59 4.3.5. Diagrams ............................................................................................................. 75 4.4. Structure Package ........................................................................................................ 77 4.4.1. Overview ............................................................................................................. 77 4.4.2. Abstract Syntax ................................................................................................... 78 4.4.3. Class Descriptions ............................................................................................... 78 4.4.4. Diagrams ............................................................................................................. 85 ix
Page 1 and 2: A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING CONCEPTU
Page 3 and 4: I hereby declare that all informati
Page 5 and 6: ÖZ SİMÜLASYON SİSTEMLERİ GÖRE
Page 7: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This thesis is a re
Page 11 and 12: LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Conceptual
Page 13 and 14: Figure 30: Sample Task Flow Diagram
Page 15 and 16: IEEE Institute of Electrical and El
Page 17 and 18: Zeigler describes the basic element
Page 19 and 20: Balci [4] states that the early pha
Page 21 and 22: DMSO (Defense Modeling and Simulati
Page 23 and 24: process-oriented, IDEF1X is a more
Page 25 and 26: as shown in Figure 4. Mission Space
Page 27 and 28: Chapter 4 describes the modeling no
Page 29 and 30: constraints related with the domain
Page 31 and 32: are examples to these notations. UM
Page 33 and 34: with the development of the federat
Page 35 and 36: federation scenario, the geographic
Page 37 and 38: SEDEP adds a step at the start of t
Page 39 and 40: For each type of relation between S
Page 41 and 42: acquisition and knowledge elicitati
Page 43 and 44: Attribute is similar to the attribu
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Page 47 and 48: interaction classes include HLA par
Page 49 and 50: CHAPTER 3 3. KAMA APPROACH This cha
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The user can create, store, delete
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Figure 10: High Level Use Case Diag
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includes manager packages which pro
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package includes common metamodel e
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metamodel of that package. The Foun
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PseudoState InitialState Dependency
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feature and structural feature. A b
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4.3. Mission Space Package 4.3.1. O
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Constraints [C-MS-a-1] A mission sh
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Task Flow or Mission Space diagrams
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f. WorkProduct A work product repre
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h. SynchronizationPoint A synchroni
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k. ResponsibleFor A responsible for
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[C-MS-m-2] An extends relation cann
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[C-MS-o-1] An achieves relation has
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Attributes • No additional attrib
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Extending_Mission extends Mission1
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model is represented by 4 types of
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Notation c. KAMAAttribute An actor
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f. KAMAAssociation A generalization
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Generalizations • Association fro
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22. But the reader of the conceptua
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as multiple diagrams in order to re
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4.5.3. Class Descriptions a. KAMASt
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Constraints [C-SM-c-1] A KAMAInitia
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Notation 4.5.4. Diagrams a. Entity
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CHAPTER 4 5. APPLICATION OF THE NOT
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included implementation details. We
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1) Identify the high-level strategi
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d. Process and Outputs The process
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. Are KAMA models straightforward?
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cover, the rate of detect/identify/
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necessarily have to produce the wor
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Figure 33: Sample Command Hierarchy
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Figure 35: Sample Entity State Diag
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Conceptual Model Element (in the so
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As we completed the first case stud
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The conceptual model will be develo
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Model Use: 3) Validity: Are KAMA mo
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defined. The team came up with 157
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Figure 38: Sample Entity Ontology D
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equirements. Unless we had performe
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are powerful tools to represent eve
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specification contains the abstract
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developing conceptual models using
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Moreover, the framework offered all
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observations showed that both the s
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performing context-sensitive search
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REFERENCES 1. Akkök, N., “Toward
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31. Law, A.M. & Kelton, W.D. (1999)
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67. Tanriover, O. (2008) Inspection
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