Software engineering of distributed simulation environments

Shared design environments, distributed virtual environments, networked gaming software, cooperative work environments, and even multi user dungeons are all applications representative of the new enthusiasm for distributed simulation software. Yet despite this enthusiasm, there has been little effort made to provide software engineering support for these unique kinds of programs. We lay out the requirements that any such software engineering techniques will have to meet, then suggest a formalism and a software interconnection tool that will allow the building of reusable shared components of distributed simulation programs