1. Executive Director, SISO Conference/Workshop Activities
Upcoming Events
SISO Sponsors
2008 Spring SIW
April 2008
Westin Hotel
Providence, RI
An Independent Standards Development Organization serving the International M&S Community
Collocated with BRIMS
Behavior Representation In Modeling & Simulation
SISO : the organization dedicated to the promotion of modeling and simulation interoperability & reuse for the benefit of diverse M&S communities, including developers, procurers, and users world-wide.
BRIMS sponsors
Mission: To provide an open forum that promotes the interoperability and reuse of models and simulations through the exchange of ideas, the examination of technologies, and the development of standards.
International Simulation
Multi-Conference
SG/ SSG
CFs discuss M&S Community needs & ideas
Excom, CC, SAC form SGs & SSGs to formally
study need and propose solutions
SAC Forms PDGs to develop standard
products
SG/SSG: Study Group/Standing Study Group
16-19 June 2008
Edinburgh, Scotland
2008 Fall SIW
14 – 19 September 2008
Florida Hotel
Orlando, Florida
SISO Liaisons
IEEE
ISO
ITEA
SCS
AFCEA
SimSummit
INCITS
ACM SIGSIM
NATO NMSG
Australian SSG
Duncan C. Miller, Sc.D.
Executive Director, SISO
Conference/Workshop Activities
SISO
P.O. Box
Orlando, Florida
Phone: (407)
FAX: (407)

2. Products and Services SISO Standards
SISO-STD-001.1: Real Time Platform Reference FOM
SISO-STD-001: Guidance, Rationale & Interoperability Modalities for the RPR FOM (GRIM 1.0)
SISO-STD-002: Link 16 Simulation
SISO-STD-003: Base Object Model (BOM) Template Specification
SISO-STD-003.1: Guide for BOM Use and Implementation
SISO-STD-004: Dynamic Link Compatible (DLC) HLA API Standard for the HLA Interface Specification Version 1.3
SISO-STD-004.1: Dynamic Link Compatible (DLC) HLA API Standard for the HLA Interface Specification (IEEE Version) (Includes a zip file of headers)
In progress: multiple efforts to develop new standards:
Provided free to the International M&S Community
Product Development Groups
Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML)
Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD)
COTS Simulation Package Interoperability (CSPI)
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
Distributed Simulation Engineering & Execution
Process (DSEEP)
Generic Methodology for VV&A for the M&S
Domain (GM-V&V)
High Level Architecture (HLA) Evolved
Link 11 A/B Simulation
Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL)
Real-time Platform Reference (RPR) FOM
Simulation Reference Markup Language (SRML)
VV&A Overlay to FEDEP
Standards
Guidelines
Best Practices
Reference Products (Technical & Research reports)
Papers and Presentations
Standards Activities
SISO Issues & Capabilities
Communities of Practice
Ontologies
Taxonomies
Semantic Interoperability
Substantive Interoperability
Intellectual Property Protection
Cultural Adjustment and Buy-in
Architectures/Frameworks
Databases
Networks
Interfaces
Study Groups
Discrete-Event System Specification (DEVS)
Mode 5/S IFF
Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) Simulation Interface
Transfer of Control (TC)
LVC Architecture Interoperability (LVC)
Message-Passing for Simulation-based Collaborative Engineering (MSG-SIM)
Distributed Debrief Control Protocol (DDCP)
Open Source Initiative for Parallel and Distributed Modeling and Simulation (OSI-PDMS)
Target Data Transfer Protocol (TDTP)
SISO Sponsored Standards
IEEE 1278 series: Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
IEEE 1516 series: High Level Architecture (HLA)
IEEE : Recommended Practice for Verification, Validation & Accreditation of a Federate
ISO : Environmental Data Coding System (EDCS)
ISO : Spatial Reference Model (SRM)
Information
Excom: Richard J. Severinghaus, CMSP
SAC: Dr. Katherine L. Morse,
Conf Comm: Ralph Weber,
Exec Director: Dr. Duncan Miller,
Standing Study Groups
Australian between SISO & Simulation Industry Association of Australia (SIAA)
Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI)
Economics of M&S
February 2008