Distributed Simulation For A Modeling And Simulation Tool: Papyrus

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) are important steps in design process. Increasing the complexity of engineered system tend to raise Distributed Simulation. Papyrus, an open source UML/SysML modeler of the Eclipse foundation provides a tool to model and simulate these two languages thanks to the fUML standard. However, Papyrus is not yet able to deal with Distributed Simulation. In this paper, we propose a Distributed Simulation composed of several Papyrus instances. Each made of an UML Profile, a Moka extension, and software architecture. The main objective is to synchronize the execution of these Papyrus instances. We are using Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) to enable communication between them. Nevertheless, the FMI standard does not natively include time management rules. Indeed, we propose to use the High Level Architecture (HLA) standard to handle time management between Papyrus simulations instance, through FMI communication.