Development of an open-source Discrete Event Simulation cloud enabled platform

Cathal Heavey, Georgios Dagkakis, Panagiotis Barlas, Ioannis Papagiannopoulos, Sebastian Robin, Marco Mariani, Jerome Perrin

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Abstract

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is traditionally one of the most popular operation research techniques. Nevertheless, organizations, and especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), are often reluctant to invest in DES projects. The lack of flexibility, high cost of developing and maintaining DES models, the high volume of data that these need in order to provide valid results and the difficulty in embedding them in real time problems, are some of the problems that deter organizations from adopting DES based solutions. DREAM is an FP7 project with the aim to develop an Open Source (OS) platform, which will confront the above issues. The DREAM architecture consists of three cloud enabled modules, a semantic free Simulation Engine (SE), a Knowledge Extraction (KE) tool and a customizable web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI). We present how these components cooperate and how an advanced user can manipulate them to develop tailored solutions for companies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2014
EditorsAndreas Tolk, Levent Yilmaz, Saikou Y. Diallo, Ilya O. Ryzhov
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2824-2835
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781479974863
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jan 2015
Event2014 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2014 - Savannah, United States
Duration: 7 Dec 201410 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
Volume2015-January
ISSN (Print)0891-7736

Conference

Conference2014 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySavannah
Period7/12/1410/12/14

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