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Integrating simulation and animation software systems through a generic computational engine Walker, Robert James
Abstract
There continue to be a proliferation of simulation/animation software packages. These packages typically are not designed to communicate in a general fashion with others, or if they do, often require tight restrictions on the conceptual designs of their partners typically in terms of temporal management. Attempting to combine and coordinate such disparate packages leads to the requirement of a system for the manipulation, configuration, and synchronization of communication between them. The form of such a communication system is naturally described in terms of a graph; thus, the need for a means to utilize some sort of graph or network as a computational engine arises. A particular formulation of coloured Petri nets (CPNs) is seen to be an effective vehicle to this end; in addition, a system built out of CPNs has the ability to be directly analyzed, since that is what CPNs were originally devised for. This work demonstrates an efficient implementation method which also leads to additional, desirable features such as permitting a hierarchical construction language.
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Integrating simulation and animation software systems through a generic computational engine
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University of British Columbia
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1996
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There continue to be a proliferation of simulation/animation software packages.
These packages typically are not designed to communicate in a general fashion with
others, or if they do, often require tight restrictions on the conceptual designs of
their partners typically in terms of temporal management. Attempting to combine
and coordinate such disparate packages leads to the requirement of a system for
the manipulation, configuration, and synchronization of communication between
them. The form of such a communication system is naturally described in terms
of a graph; thus, the need for a means to utilize some sort of graph or network
as a computational engine arises. A particular formulation of coloured Petri nets
(CPNs) is seen to be an effective vehicle to this end; in addition, a system built
out of CPNs has the ability to be directly analyzed, since that is what CPNs were
originally devised for. This work demonstrates an efficient implementation method which also leads to additional, desirable features such as permitting a hierarchical construction language.
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eng
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2009-03-16
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0051514
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University of British Columbia
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1996-11
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Graduate
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