[Vp-reproduce-subgroup] Simulation Standards

[Jacob Barhak]

Thank you Katherine for reaching out to us,

This subgroup will benefit from educating us with standards.- there is a
lot we can benefit from.

James Glazier has just mentioned in the working group Webinar that he
reached out to you - please look for his email in your personal mailbox.

If I understand his intentions correctly he wants to invite you to give a
talk in the webinar series that includes the larger working group - the one
that includes this smaller subgroup that you mailed to.

You can find previous webinars in this link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuDFvhgFziRRDcpRnT3vlrw

As you can see, the topic of standards will be different from topics that
we covered in the past - yet I think that it is an important one.

There are multiple groups that develop useful specifications and try to
integrate models, yet are unaware of issues that happen when you try to
formalize the work and standardize it. I hope you can share some of the
experience you had with specific examples you experienced and explain how
those were solved. Even the anecdotes I heard talked about in SISO would be
helpful to educate people.

I personally am interested in the units of measure issue in healthcare -
something as simple as units of measure is far from being standardized in
the healthcare community, which implies that models built on such data are
non standardized - I assume you resolved this problem in your domain.
Perhaps you can comment on this topic.

If any one else has a standardization topic they are interested in, I
suggest they take the advantage and ask the question in this forum and
perhaps Katherine can share her knowledge.

Hopefully you can help us in this mailing list or perhaps in a talk you
schedule with James to the larger working group. Yet even a review of
standards would be highly beneficial to us.

            Jacob



On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:35 PM Morse, Katherine L. <
Katherine.Morse at jhuapl.edu> wrote:

> Thanks to Jacob Barhak for inviting me to participate and provide my
> perspective on simulation interoperability and standards for supporting it.
> I’ve held senior leadership positions in the Simulation Interoperability
> Standards Organization (SISO <https://www.sisostds.org/>) almost since
> its inception 24 years ago. In that time I’ve led the development of or
> contributed to several standards. Many of the issues you’re facing right
> now with getting your simulations to interoperate have been issues for the
> defense simulation community for a very long time. These issues were the
> motivation for forming SISO. We’ve developed process and technical
> solutions to many of them, although we don’t apply them as consistently as
> we should, resulting in less interoperability than we could achieve. That
> said, there’s a large body of knowledge from which you might benefit. In
> reading your discussion traffic, I see that you’re considering applying
> NASA’s work on VV&A. This is excellent work, which has its roots in the DoD
> VV&A Recommended Practices Guide (RPG <https://vva.msco.mil/>). Here are
> some other resources that might prove helpful. For the IEEE ones, you’ll
> need a subscription to the IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) or to buy them*.
> The SISO standards are all free to download
>
>    - Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP)
>    - High Level Architecture (HLA
>    <https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1516_2-2000.html>)
>    - Federation Engineering Agreements Template (FEAT)
>    - Simulation Interoperability Readiness Levels (SIRL
>    <https://www.sisostds.org/StandardsActivities/DevelopmentGroups/SIRLPDG.aspx>
>    )
>
>
>
> Additionally, I can provide briefings on standards development in general
> and SISO in particular if that would be helpful.
>
>
>
> The bottom line is that you’re not alone in dealing with these issues, and
> I’m happy to help.
>
>
>
> *I regularly give tutorials on these standards and would be happy to do so
> for your group if you’re interested.
>
>
>
> KLM
>
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