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GM-VV Study Group 06 Euro SIW Stockholm
Interim Report Stephane CHAIGNEAU René
JACQUART Ad Van LIER Simone YOUNGBLOODTony
Masys
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Agenda of the Meeting

• Opening Address
• SG GM VV Overview presentation
• Interim Report presentation
• Final Report Table of Contents discussion
• Product Nomination Template presentation
• SISO VVA Initiatives
• GM VV activities (proposal for reflector way of
  working)
• SISO Membership
• Invited PresentationVV support using REVVA (30
  min)
• Open SG discussion

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Outline

• State-of-the-art
• Assessment of community needs
• Analysis of issues and solutions

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State-of-the-art where we are !

• What has already been done
• What tasks are currently being processed
• Roadmap evolved

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What has already been done (International Efforts)

• SISO and NATO outcomes
• VVA overlay of the FEDEP
• first draft available (March 2006)
• first round of comments in process
• REVVA outcomes
• Reference and Users manuals (December 2004 )
• THALES JP 11.20-WE5100METHGU2-D5103 -Reference
  Manual
• THALES JP11.20-WE5200-PROSPEC-D5201 Users
  Manual
• ITOP outcomes
• ITOP official release n1-1-002 (13 Mai 2004)
• General procedure for planning, implementing and
  documenting Verification Validation efforts
  relating Models and Simulations to support the
  exchange of this information,

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What tasks are currently being processed

• SISO and NATO
• Processing the first round of comments
  collection of comments completed, PDG drafting
  group working on comments resolution
• REVVA
• Working on several themes
• Terminology and Taxonomy
• Cost benefit models and tailoring techniques
• VV products support, VV process support
• Cases study
• Interface of VVA to system engineering
• Reference Manual VVA Methodology
• ITOP
• Improving the CAE (Claim Argument Evidence)
  structure (ToA, Target of Acceptance) and process
  (REVVA like)

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How could we go together forward

• Many ways
• Integration
• Convergence
• Complementary
• Work sharing

Unified view of VV standard products
Specification of VV Standard products
Who What and When
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Sharing the work Identification of area of
shared work (Spring SIW 06)
MS Product type requirements
VV requirements
Type of product (Level of the simulation,
federation, model, data) Integration (validity of
simulation framework) Composability System
engineering
Intended Purpose Acceptable risk Referent frame,
uncertainties
Areas of shared work

• Taxonomy of MS and VV product managing
  cost,
• VV effort related to uncertainty
• Low cost VV techniques
• Low cost repository
• VV tools

Influencing VV products (constraints of the
problem) Dimensioning VV effort (optimisation of
the solution)
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Requirements for MS information exchange VV
documentation capitalisation, repository
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Unified View - VV standardisation products
(Spring SIW 06) new version
TERMINOLOGY
CONCEPTS
GENERIC USER GUIDE
APPLICATION CONTEXT SPECIFIC
GUIDANCES
Generic Process
Taxonomy - Relationship between MS and VV
products
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Unified View - VV standardisation products
Referent Frame
Referent frame
CAE Claim Argument Evidence (ITOP)
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Outline

• State of the art
• Assessment of community needs
• Analysis of issues and solutions

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Customers of VVA standardisation works

• MS Sponsors (MS PM)
• MS Users (MS Customers)
• VV Agents
• MS Developers
• System engineers
• Model developers

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Customers of VVA standardisation works Uses of
VV information

• MS Sponsors
• MS Users
• VV Agents
• MS Developers

Risk/cost/benefit assessment
Confidence in operational decision making
Effective/efficient VV
Reducing the risk of delivering bad products
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VV agents contexts and constraints

• Different classes of cases
• actual employment, acquisition, development of
  simulation targets and simulation means,..
• Risks, cost, benefits assessment
• Organisational context
• roles, responsibilities, skills levels,..
• Variability of validity criteria and acceptance
  criteria in actual application domains

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VV agents contexts and constraints
Different classes of cases

• Legacy products
• ITOP case exchange of MS products
• Legacy models planned use
• Case of the MS Training
• VV activities on model and use, users feedback
• Proactive VV process
• VV process and MS process in phase. (FEDEP)
• Referent frame lacking
• Case of the simulation for acquisition
• Identification of pros and cons !

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VV agents guidance

• Well defined VV products
• Well defined, easy to grasp, tailoring activities
  (specialising the product content)
• Well defined goals for each step of the VV
  process
• Template for easy production/accumulation of VV
  information
• VV repository

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Outline

• State-of-the-art
• Assessment of community needs
• Analysis of issues and solutions

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Generic issuesSpecific need or requirement

• State-of-the-art analysis
• Roadmap analysis of VVA overlay of the FEDEP
  and ITOP
• Lack in the coverage of MS VV needs
• Dependence on specific technology and development
  approach
• Needs for VV of federates and not only of
  federations

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Generic issuesNeed for this product

• REVVA SISO presentations
• SIW04, SIW05, SIW06
• Foundations02, Foundations04
• CConVVA 2004
• VV Summit 2002
• Complementarities (with SISO/NATO and ITOP)
• ROADMAP coverage

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Generic issuesSimilar product
TERMINOLOGY
CONCEPTS
GENERIC USER GUIDE
APPLICATION CONTEXT SPECIFIC
GUIDANCES
Requirements for a VV repository
Generic Process

Intended purpose
Requirements for documentation
Formal techniques for VV tools
Target of Acceptance
Risks
Guidance for techniques and tools
Composition and interoperability (HLA, TENA,
DIS, CORBA)
Cost benefits
CAE Structure
Organisation
Referent frame
Target of VV
Users manual - Product aspect
Users manual - Process aspect
Acceptance and VV report
Taxonomy - Relationship between MS and VV
products
Process Improvement
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SG GM-VV specific issuesComplementary views

• Definition of relations with Problem Solving and
  System Engineering

System Engineering
Problem Solving
- requirements development - deployment and VV
of simulation systems
- methodologies for building experiment
VVA
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SG GM-VV specific issues

• Specification of GM-VV products
• Comprehensive use of the roadmap components
• Identification of documents (audience, role,
  uses, )
• Audience
• VV agents
• Product oriented view
• Complementary with process view
• Emphasis on
• Guidance
• Objectivity (VPMM, SCM)
• Assessment
• Reuse

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