Gathers a number of architectural and technical issues in order to offer to the CO interface designers and CO compliant components
developers all the generic information needed. Acts as reference material for further developing and implementing interfaces specific
to the process simulation domain. Gives the selection of the methods and software tools for the CO standard. Main recommendations
include: apply the object-oriented paradigm, take advantage of the distributed software component based approach, use the UML notation
and the middleware technology.
Gives a strategy and technical advices on migration of legacy systems and software towards CO compliance and component based architecture. Reports on several examples implemented as proofs of concept for the proposed migration strategy.
Presents the validation program essential to demonstrate that CAPE-OPEN is a workable standard. This program achieves two primary
objectives: first verify that the defined interfaces are capable of transmitting all the information necessary to perform a correct
simulation, secondly verify that the standard interfaces are unambiguously defined and evolutive.
Explores conceptual and technical research issues related to process simulation and the use of software components. A prototypical
simulation environment is described to demonstrate the ideas. Integration with various CO compliant prototypes is discussed.
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Technical Architecture
