• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.19-30
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• 2012

In recent decades, it has been known that the Discrete Event System Specification, or DEVS, formalism provides sound semantics to design a modular and hierarchical model of a discrete event system. In spite of this benefit, practitioners have difficulties in applying the semantics to real-world systems modeling because DEVS needs to specify a large size of sets of events and/or states in an unstructured form. To resolve the difficulties, this paper proposes an extension of the DEVS formalism, called the Structured DEVS formalism, with an associated graphical representation, called the DEVS diagram, by means of structural representation of such sets based on closure property of set theory. The proposed formalism is proved to be equivalent to the original DEVS formalism in their model specification, yet the new formalism specifies sets in a structured form with a concept of phases, variables and ports. A simplified example of the structured DEVS with the DEVS diagram shows the effectiveness of the proposed formalism which can be easily implemented in an objected-oriented simulation environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.43-49
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 이산사건 시스템의 무시간 DEVS/DEVS 명세에 대한 계층적인 설계/검증 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 방법의 가장 큰 장점은 DEVS 상위모델과 DEVS 하위 모델간의 반복적인 설계/검증 시 계층적 인 방식을 채택하여 검증 시 일반적으로 문제가 되는 상태폭발 문제를 크게 완화시켰다는 점이다. 간단한 예제를 통하여 제안된 방법론을 자세히 보여주고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1029-1036
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• 2007

State explosion is a well-known problem that impedes analysis md testing of discrete event systems, thus making the verification of large systems intrinsically difficult job. This paper suggests a hierarchical verification methodology of untimed DEVS model which can alleviate the state explosion problem. The method is a repetitive procedure of designing and verifying between the upper level and the lower level models abstracting away the unnecessary information with respect to a given verification task. A small example was employed to show our suggested method in detail.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.403-405
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• 2002

다양한 제품요구와 짧아진 제품의 수명주기, 수시로 발생하는 주문과 품목의 변화등으로 기업은 공급체인관리(SCM)를 도입하고 있으나 빈번한 이산사천의 발생으로 계획부분과 제조현장 실행부분의 차이가 발생하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여, 실행부분에서 발생하는 이산사건의 관리를 통해 계획부분과 실행부분의 차이를 줄이는 에이전트 기반 이산사건 관리모델을 제안하였다. 이산사건에 대해서는 컬러드 페트리 넷을 이용하여 명세하였고 관리모델은 에이젼트를 기반으로 지능적이고 자율적인 특성을 이용하여 사건의 발생에서 분류 지식데이터베이스구축, 전송에 이르는 이산사건 관리모델 아키텍쳐를 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.35-46
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• 2012

As complexity of real-time systems is being increased ad hoc approaches to analysis of such systems would have limitations in completeness and coverability for states space search. Formal means using a model-based approach would solve such limitations. This paper proposes a model-based formal method for logical analysis, such as safety and liveness, of real-time systems at a discrete event system level. A discrete event model for real-time systems to be analyzed is specified by DEVS(Discrete Event Systems Specification) formalism, which specifies a discrete event system in hierarchical, modular manner. Analysis of such DEVS models is performed by Communicating DEVS (C-DEVS) formalism of a timed global state transition specification and an associated analysis algorithm. The C-DEVS formalism and an associated analysis algorithm guarantees that all possible states for a given system are visited in an analysis phase. A case study of a safety analysis for a rail road crossing system illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed method of the model-based approach.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.23-36
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• 2018

Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) has been used for decades as it provides sound semantics for hierarchical modular specification of discrete event systems. Instead of the mathematical specification, the DEVS diagram, based on the structured DEVS formalism, has provided more intuitive and convenient representation of complex DEVS models. This paper proposes a clean room process for implementation and verification of a DEVS diagram model specification into a simulation software source code. Specifically, it underlies a sequence of transformation steps from conformance and integrity checking of a given diagram model, translation into a corresponding tabular model, and finally conversion to a simulation source code, with each step being inversely verifiable for traceability. A simple example helps developers to understand the proposed process with associated transformation methods; a case study shows that the proposed process is effective for and adaptable to practical simulation software development.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

An agent-based simulation is a popular simulation tool to solve various problems, such as stock market, population prediction, disease prediction, and development of a traffic system. As the agents are developed and researched in different application fields, the agent has a rigid structure and may not acceptable in different domains. As a result, it is a challenging problem to define a structure for an agent structure to reflect the researcher's simulation objective. This research proposes an extendable form for an agent and its modeling environment. In order to propose a standard structure, this study adopts system entity structure and discrete event system specification formalism. Also, this research introduces the SESManager which supports the proposed specification method. The proposed environment can hierarchically define the agent structure and synthesize the agent so that it can perform the agent simulation according to the user's simulation purpose.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.101-107
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• 2022

Modeling and simulation is a technique used for operational verification, performance analysis, operational optimization, and prediction of target systems. Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) of this representative technology defines models with a strict formalism and stratifies the structures between the models. When the atomic DEVS models operate with an intention different the target system, the simulation may lead to erroneous decision-making. However, most DEVS systems have the exclusion of the model test or provision of the manual test, so developers spend a lot of time verifying the atomic models. In this paper, we propose a script-based automated test system for accurate and fast validation of atomic models in Python-based DEVS. The proposed system uses both the existing method of manual testing and the new method of the script-based testing. As Experimental results in our system, the script-based test method was executed within 24 millisecond when the script was executed 10 times consecutively. Thus, the proposed system guarantees a fast verification time of the atomic models in our script-based test and improves the reusability of the test script.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.174-179
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• 2000

Workflow 관리 시스템은 비즈니스 프로세스의 자동화를 지원하는 것으로서, 비즈니스 프로세스의 각 업무 단계에 관련된 인적 자원 및 IT자원을 적절히 활용하도록 구현되어야 한다. 이러한 Workflow 관리 시스템은 Workflow 프로세스에 대한 명세로부터 실행 모델이 구성되어 Workflow 엔진을 통해 수행되는 과정을 거친다. 한편, 명세된 프로세스의 논리적 검증과 성능 예측을 위하여는 Workflow 의 수행 전에 시뮬레이션을 통한 분석이 선행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 기술된 Workflow 프로세스 명세로부터 이산사건 시스템 형식론인 DEVS를 기반으로 통일된 실행모델을 생성하고, 이를 바탕으로 시뮬레이션 분석과 실시간 수행을 하는 시뮬레이션 엔진과 실시간 분산수행 엔진을 각각 개발하였다. 간단한 업무 프로세스의 예를 통하여 분산환경에서 실행함으로써 제안된 방법의 유용성을 검증할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.87-96
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• 2011

DEVS(Discrete Event Systems Specification) is a set theoretic formalism developed for specifying discrete event system. For execution of DEVS, we need an execution environment, which consists of simulation engine and models interpreted by the simulation engine. Common existing environments use hierarchical scheduling algorithm for DEVS execution. This hierarchical scheduling is a proper algorithm for DEVS execution because of hierarchical and modular characteristics. But this algorithm has overheads owing to message passing and time management. To overcome these overheads, we apply event-oriented simulation to DEVS execution and we remove hierarchical overheads. In eventoriented simulation, the scheduling of model execution is performed by events and event list. We propose three event-oriented execution environments for DEVS and experiment about the performance of our proposed environments in comparison with the existing execution environment using the hierarchical scheduling. The experimental results show our environments works better than existing environment using the hierarchical scheduling.