Development of Equipment Command Office federate based on workflow management software

Based on HLA, this paper developed Equipment Command Office (ECO) simulation federate with workflow product-LiveFlow to fulfill the requirement of creating Distributed Simulation System - Equipment Maintenance Support federation. With analyzing the function of ECO, it developed the Simulation Object Model (SOM) of ECO federate and the universal framework of federates' simulation execution management. Also it developed workflow simulation model of ECO based on LiveFlow. The “Human-in-Loop” simulation was realized by invoking the business process object (BPO) library of LiveFlow. This research is significant to the deployment, training and working-efficiency evaluation of ECO staffs. It's also the foundation of business process reengineering (BPR) of ECO.