ON THE HLA- AND INTERNET-BASED COUPLING OF COMMERCIAL SIMULATION TOOLS FOR PRODUCTION NETWORKS

The recent development of the High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation (HLA) has stimulated interest in the use of distributed, interoperable simulation models. This paper deals with the application of HLA-based coupling of simulation tools in the area of production networks. Results of several performance measurements will be used to discuss the problems that we detected during our tests. The paper will draw conclusions on how the integration of HLA and Internet technologies can enhance the application of distributed simulation in general and how they could be used for the simulation of production networks in specific.