The HITVICE VV&A environment

VV&A process needs to be systematically organized and costs heavy workload. Conventional VV&A tools are mostly designed for special simulation needs, and are lack of flexible workflow processing, CSCW support and integrated resource managing etc. The simulation community needs a synthetic environment more than scattered tools to speed the process of VV&A. In this paper, we introduce our HITVICE VV&A environment for totally facilitating VV&A. The system can realize workflow automation, hierarchical evaluation, CSCW, lifecycle data management and flexible authority control etc. External VV&A tools can also be integrated into HITVICE and interchange data with it. HITVICE has been applied by a large different-placed simulation coded 40301. The system proved to be effective in W&A assistance, and it´s being improved to satisfy new requirements from prospective users.