Final Reports

 SISO-REF-061-2015:  Final Report for the Human Performance Markup Language Study Group
The findings established (1) a direct need for a standard that represents diagnostic human performance within simulations that is not addressed through current standards; (2) the Human Performance Markup Language offers a standardized diagnostic representation of human performance within simulations; and (3) there is broad support within the industry and across the Services within the DoD for HPML as a standard.

SISO-REF-060-2016: Final Report for the Parallel and Distributed Modeling and Simulation Standing Study Group
This group engaged in parallel and distributed modeling and simulation community outreach and education efforts at SIWs through tutorials, presenting papers, and technical discussions.

SISO-REF-058-2015:  Final Report for the Architecture Neutral Data Exchange Model Study Group
The primary result produced by this study group is the recognition that there is an unsatisfied need for an architecture independent representation of data exchange models that are both easy for people to read and understand and yet still rigorous enough to support the generation of architecture specific data exchange models for the individual architectures plus the gateways or translators that link them together. Unfortunately, there is currently no obviously best representational technology available to implement an ANDEM that is easier to understand than the currently available architecture specific representations.  The study group does not recommend any further action by SISO at this time. While there is a need for a more understandable and efficient way to express the information that needs to be exchanged by federates in a distributed simulation, research needs to be performed before any particular approach can be considered for standardization.

SISO-REF-057-2015: Layered Simulation Architecture Study Group Final Report
This is the final report of the Layered Simulation Architecture (LSA) Study Group (SG).  The SG began its operations in 2012 with the purpose to apply current thinking on network centric interoperability and open systems architecture to modeling and simulation. Technical findings included: 1) Data Distribution Service (DDS) can run over internet; 2) LSA architecture can be built in a real project; 3) DDS Interoperability Wire Protocol (DDSI) allow a simulation to interoperate with different DDS vendors; 4) Protocol Application Programming Interfaces should be abstracted as proposed by FACE 2.0 C137 from The Open Group; and 5) System interoperability involves strong interface management. The SG recommended the creation of a Product Development Group to develop a SISO Standard based on the concepts proposed in the report.

SISO-REF-051-2014:  WebLVC Study Group Final Report
This is the final report of the WebLVC Study Group (SG).  The SG's identified several good technical approaches including:  1) Representing simulation semantics in JSON messages; 2) Auto-generating WebLVC messags from an HLA FOM; and 3) Sending WebLVC messages over WebSockets.  Additionally, the SG found that performance of WebLVC is sufficient for the needs of many M&S applications, it is possible to use WebLVC in native (non-browser-based) applications, and the WebLVC concept lends itself to client-specific interest-management techniques.

SISO-REF-043-2012: Reuse and Interoperation of Environmental Data and Processes (RIEDP) SG Final Report
The 29 month study group effort focused on three sub-areas: LVC Environment Needs, the Fall 2009 SIW Special Workshop, and the Harmonization Objective. The SG recommends continuing with Product Nominations for two products - an Environmental Data Model Foundations product which would be a Guidance document (to include a Reference Process Model(RPM), and a Referenca Abstract Data Model (RADM, both of which were addressed by the RIEDP SG), and an Environmental Detailed Features Description product which would be a SISO Standard product. 

SISO-REF-042-2013: UCATT Study Group Final Report
The Urban Combat Advanced Training Technologies (UCATT) Study Group (SG) Final Report provides an overview of activities spanning 2009 - 2012.  The Technical Co-operation Agreement between the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) and SISO, formalized the individual participation by NMSG members in the SG. This document would not have been possible without the work produced by former NATO Modeling and Simulation Task Groups MSG-032 and MSG-063, and the current support of MSG-099. Membership includes representatives from Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. The SG decided that based on the numbers and complexity of potential products to be standardized in support of live instrumentation interoperability to follow a multi-staged process to implement the multiple interface standards.

SISO-REF-041-2012: Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Standards SG Final Report
This document describes the formation of the SG, provides summaries of SG face-to-face meetings, and provides a collection of papers presented at SIWs relating to activities of the SG and its sponsoring forum. The document concludes with an evaluation of the performance of the SG against its original Terms of Reference (TOR) and a recommendation from the SG to form a SISO Standing Study Group for continuation of investigations started by this SG.

SISO-REF-032-2009: Transfer of Control Study Group Final Report 
The purpose of the group was to perform systems analysis and develop the necessary changes to IEEE 1278.1 that were needed to make the Transfer Control function introduced in the IEEE 1278.1a-1998 standard workable. It was also to look at the necessary changes to the HLA RPR FOM and GRIM. 

SISO-REF-031-2009: Open Source Initiative for Parallel and Distributed M&S (OSI-PDMS) Study Group Final Report 
The OSI-PDMS Study Group conducted its business at SIW events, with a primary focus on training and education of the SISO M&S community. This final report briefly summarizes the accomplishments made over the previous year for the OSI-PDMS Study Group, along with future recommendations.

SISO-REF-028-2011: Distributed Debrief Control Protocol (DDCP) Study Group Final Report
The results of the 2008 DDCP Study Group survey reflected a positive reaction towards developing a DDCP standard. The opinion was shared across a large cross section of distributed simulation practitioners including U.S. and international responses. The original recommendation of the report was to stand up a Product Development Group (PDG) for the purposes of creating a distributed debrief interoperability standard. Subsequent diminishing Study Group meeting attendance resulted in a delay. Renewed interest in 2011 has resulted in the creation of the Distributed Debrief Control Architecture (DDCA) PDG. A multi-revision approach is recommended for developing the standard so that benefits can be quickly realized. Ideally the initial standard would focus on the record and playback capabilities, which provide the backbone for the distributed debrief capability. Additional standard revisions would roll out with enhancements organized through the PDG. The experiences and lessons learned from other SISO product standardization groups would be leveraged in order to maximize benefit and minimize side effects caused by a multi-revision process.

SISO-REF-026-2008: Message-Sim Study Group Final Report. See also paper 08S-SIW-016 
The study recognizes that simulation for space operations and exploration needs innovative investigation into methods for distribution and reception of critical simulation information through messaging protocols. Life cycle space operations involve exchange of large data sets for simulation applied to planning, design, analysis, optimization, substantiation, test, operations and evaluation as well as training. 

SISO-REF-022-2010: SCORM-Sim Study Group Final Report 
This final report documents the Study Group activities from its formation at the 2006 AICC meeting to the Spring 2008 SIW. The findings and status of the tasks are also recorded in this report.

SISO-REF-021-2006: Generic Methodology (GM) V&V Study Group Final Report

SISO-REF-019-2008: Discrete-Event Systems Specification (DEVS) SG Final Report 
The Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) was among the first successful efforts to extend a discrete event system formalism into an organized system-theory based framework. These early efforts at formalization were devoted to building a theory to help bring some coherence and unity to the field of modeling and simulation.

SISO-REF-017.1-2006: Annotated SCM Bibliography (4th edition posted; 3rd edition approved 13 Nov 06) 
Table of authors, titles, and publication dates.

SISO-REF-017-2006: Simulation Conceptual Modeling (SCM) SG Final Report
A simulation conceptual model is an abstraction from either the existing or a notional physical world that serves as a frame of reference for further simulation development by documenting simulation-independent views of important entities and their key actions and interactions.

SISO-REF-016-2006: Coalition-Battle Management Language (C-BML) Study Group Final Report (Addendum added as Footnote 1, pg iv, approved 8 Oct 07)
The proposed C-BML standard is the foundation of a framework that can provide an objective capability to enable automatic and rapid unambiguous tasking and reporting between C2 and M&S Systems. Products resulting from establishment and execution of the above tasks include, but are not limited to a literature survey summarizing the results of the first task and a final report, summarizing the results of the above tasks, to be delivered during the Fall 2005 Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW).

SISO-REF-015-2006: Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) Study Group Final Report. Consists of basic rpt (015), draft specification (015a), draft schema (015b), and draft data dictionary (015c) 
The Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) intends to serve the international command and control and simulation domains with data representation and file transmittal format standards to define military scenario information that can be populated by MSDL compliant scenario planning tools including C4I devices and read by MSDL compliant live, virtual, and constructive simulations including DIS or HLA-based federations.

SISO-REF-014-2005: Extensible M&S Framework Profile (XMSF) Study Group Final Report 
The specification of XMSF will be in the form of a collection of profiles detailing how to interoperate with XMSF compliant systems. These profiles will enable inter- and intra-domain interoperability.

SISO-REF-013-2005: Simulation Reference Markup Language (SRML) Study Group Final Report 
The purpose of the Simulation Reference Markup Language Study Group (SRML SG) is to investigate the potential for standardizing a simulation markup language and corresponding simulation engine within the SISO community. SRML is an XML schema for encoding simulation behavior within XML documents, and has been identified by the Base Object Model (BOM) study group as enabling "encapsulated BOMs". 

SISO-REF-011-2005: Intelligent Tutoring System Interoperability (ITSI) Study Group Final Report 
This report describes the results of the ITSI SG meeting held at the Fall, ‘04 SIW in Orlando which resulted in a refined set of use cases and requirements and a prototype of the I/SIS. This report draws from the papers “Requirements of an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS)/Simulation Interoperability Standard (I/SIS)” presented at the Fall, ’04 SIW [1] and “Terms of Reference (TOR) for the SISO Study Group on Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) Interoperability” presented at the Spring, ‘05 SIW [2]. 

SISO-REF-009-2003: Tactical Data Link Study Group Final Report 
It is the objective of this protocol to establish a standard for TADIL-J message exchange and LINK 16 network simulation in the DIS and HLA interoperability frameworks. The intent is to prescribe the content of the standard fields of the Transmitter and Signal PDUs and establish procedures for their use. Compliance with these procedures will facilitate interoperability amongst LINK 16 simulation systems. 

SISO-REF-008-2002: C4ISR/Sim TRM Final Report 
The Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) community has called for a Technical Reference Model (TRM) to create a standard frame of reference for interoperability between C4ISR Systems and M&S Systems. 

SISO-REF-007-2001: SISO Software Products (SSP) Study Group Final Report 
This is a report of findings and recommendations for SISO, produced by a study group commissioned at the Fall 2000 Simulation Interoperability Workshop. The primary issues addressed by the study group center around the consideration of software as a potential class of product to be developed and managed by SISO, as provided for in a product development group (PDG). 

SISO-REF-005-2001: BOM Study Group Final Report 
The Base Object Model (BOM) Methodology, introduced initially by the Reference FOM Study Group and expanded upon by several Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW) presentation papers (98F-SIW-034, 99S-SIW-185), was seen as a promising interoperability technology that deserved further investigation by a SISO endorsed Study Group. 

SISO-REF-004-2000: C4I Study Group Final Report 
Simulation interfaces to Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Security, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems are essential to support: Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA); the development of Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (DTTP); “Train as you fight;” Embedded Training (both individual and collective); Course of Action Development and Analysis; Mission Planning and Rehearsal; and Execution Monitoring. 

SISO-REF-003-1999: (99F-SIW-001): RTI Interoperability Study Group Final Report 
Under the High Level Architecture (HLA), as defined today, federates are limited to interoperating within the context of a single federation execution, the data for which is described in a common Federation Object Model (FOM). 

SISO- REF-001-1998: Reference FOM Study Group Final Report 
The RFOM SG set a goal of serving all simulation communities with an interest in SISO supporting their High Level Architecture (HLA) Object Model Template (OMT) data and associated meta-data material.  The RFOM SG began by identifying, defining, and helping SISO to initiate support of such material.