Software agents for distributed simulation systems

This paper presents an approach to connecting distributed simulation models and other applications with the help of software agents. Simulation accuracy and transparency can benefit when the simulation models are connected to dynamically updated data resources, such as databases and other simulations. In the proposed solution a software agent based system is used to transfer the data between simulation models and applications located on computers in the Internet or an intranet network. We have established that software agents can be used to connect distributed simulation models developed with different general-purpose simulation tools and demonstrated the method on an example derived from a real-world problem.