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A Catalog-based Platform for Integrated Development of Simulation Models

Authors:
Arthur Strasser
Peter Engel
Mirco Schindler
Wilhelm Tegethoff
Sebastian Lempp

Keywords: Metamodeling; Software Ecosystem; Software Plat-form; Architecture Description; Simulation

Abstract:
In the automotive domain, it is common practice to develop a vehicle system with reusable components in order to reduce development time and costs. Several suppliers are responsible for the development of the components on behalf of one leading manufacturer, who ensures the integration of the components into the system. Thereby, models are used for simulation and test of components in advance. The manufacturers integrate these models of different suppliers into their system under development using its own simulation environment. However, in order to optimize the system in a simulation, manufacturers often rely on the supplier's expert knowledge regarding components property values. But often the models must also be modified to allow their execution in a target simulation environment. Thus, manufacturers have to cope with manual steps and a decreasing re-usability of models. To overcome these difficulties, significant additional effort and costs in every development iteration is involved. A platform for automating the optimization and version management of models is a promising approach, to reduce this development effort as a common basis of the development teams. Hence, we propose a component simulation-software catalog platform for a cooperatively organized development environment. It provides a domain specific language as a meta model for modeling catalogs consisting of model variants and versions. Furthermore, the platform provides automation services for model import and export, refactoring and simulation.

Pages: 29 to 35

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: April 26, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4146

ISBN: 978-1-61208-781-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020