Model Architecture Execution - Extending the Use of Colored Petri Nets for Evaluating Command and Control Systems

Modasco proposes extending the capability of its architectural modeling toolkit to include model execution and evaluation. Visual Simulation Objects (VSO) represents complex systems as Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) that form the basis for simulating theperformance of large, concurrently-firing systems. This enhancement will allow mathematically complex business rules to be embedded in a design, thereby creating a dynamic representation of a system. Alternate virtual prototypes can then be evaluatedquantitatively before physical prototyping begins. VSO's open architecture makes it uniquely capable of integrating legacy systems with current modeling initiatives, thus preserving the work of the past several decades. Modasco also proposes to tailor themodeling and simulation environment of VSO to the C4ISR Framework. This will produce more complete, robust and validated designs that can be described to stakeholders using a standard set of representational views. The VSO language has simple-to-learn,simple-to-use semantics and syntax. Subject matter experts will be able to design complex systems with minimal assistance from computer specialists. The enhanced version of VSO will be widely applicable to commercial, military and academic problems.Products will be brought to the marketplace quicker and with less risk and allow decision making to become a science rather than an art.