Simulation software as a service and Service-Oriented simulation experiment

Simulation software is a special category of software that is used by researchers or field experts. As the Service-Oriented Architecture gains its popularity, it is desirable to make simulation software, which originally is accessible only on a single machine, as a service that can be accessed by researchers and field experts over the Internet. Towards this goal, this paper provides a specification for simulation software as a service (SimSaaS) and service-oriented experiment in order to support automatic deployment of simulation services for carrying out experiments. We also present an architecture that provides an integrated experiment development environment which helps researchers to focus on the design of their experiments.