Immersive visualization and course-of-action simulation: towards a decision support simulation system for data driven businesses

One of MITRE's Agile Enterprise initiatives targets making silo-ed data available to the enterprise. As part of the overall initiative, this research applies a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach with the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), discrete event simulations (DES). The goal is to draw from enterprise data to enable a Decision Maker (DM) to evaluate alternative Courses of Action (COAs) based on numerical insight. Partial results have been realized using a MongoDB to structure relevant enterprise data and present them in a flexible, but common format. Currently, the coherent data view is made accessible to the user via several selected visualization tools -- collectively referred to as Immersive Visualization -- representing the information in an enterprise context. We propose that using SysML with DEVS makes all characteristics of the enterprise accessible in the form of attributed entities. That is, by including simulation-required components, the information can now be transformed into knowledge. This is accomplished through obtaining numerical insight into the dynamic behavior of the enterprise by identifying and executing performance measures for COAs. Using SysML to specify the simulation components allows storage of these alternative actions in the same MongoDB as one additional component of the enterprise model. This paper describes a prototype, current research, and planned research to provide Decision Support Simulation Systems for Data Driven Businesses.

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