Abstract
This paper presents an application distributed simulation to the evaluation of virtual enterprises. Each company or candidate can use a simulation of its facilities to determine if it has the capability to perform its individual function in the virtual enterprise. Then, these simulations can be integrated into a distributed simulation of the complete enterprise, and used to predict the viability and profitability of the proposed product collaboration. In this paper, a prototype distributed simulation for such a purpose is presented. First, information flows as well as material flows among members in a virtual enterprise are identified using IDEFØ, a formal function modeling method. Sequences of the identified functions are then presented using the finite state automata formalism. These interactions are then implemented for a commercial simulation package. Finally, a distributed simulation composed of three individual simulations is successfully tested across platforms over both the internet and the local area network.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 856-862 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings |
| Volume | 2 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference - Arlington, VA, United States Duration: Dec 9 2001 → Dec 12 2001 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Modeling and Simulation
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Chemical Health and Safety
- Applied Mathematics