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Special Issue: Reusability, Interoperability and Composability in Air Warfare Simulations

Reusability, interoperability and composability have been studied for a long time. While reuse has been pronounced as the key issue for success in large and complex system development, interoperability and composability have been recognized as underlying challenges for reuse. Interoperability has been defined as an information exchange capability to support processes that cross systems’ boundaries, and composability is delineated as the capability to assemble systems in various combinations. These problems hit simulations and simulators as well as a wide range of military systems. This special issue is aimed at presenting the recent efforts in the air warfare simulation domain that try to tackle some or all of them. Air warfare simulations have long been utilized by the defense modeling and simulation community. Efforts which target developing models for the agents of air to air, air to ground and surface to air combat have resulted in extensive literature including electronic warfare, command and control systems, weapons and platform modeling. Meanwhile the advances in distributed and agent-based simulation technologies have enabled a wide range of constructive, virtual and live warfare simulations to be developed. Recently, as a variety of models and simulations are ready and available, the defense community is facing the problems of reusing, interoperating and composing them. Papers of this special issue report the results of recent studies from the air warfare simulation domain that achieve technical contributions against these tough methodology problems of modeling and simulation. Three of the papers of this JDMS Special Issue attack reuse at particular levels. While Ozkan, et. al presents generic dynamic models for air to surface missiles, Aruk, et. al contributes with various reusable simulation models and components for airborne torpedo attack. Zipfel adds another bit with his reusable simulation library for aerospace vehicle simulation, namely CADAC++ (Computer Aided Design of Aerospace Concepts). The fourth paper on the other hand, from Alpdemir, et. al presents a simulation infrastructure to tackle interoperability and composability. The editor kindly provides the following overview of these special issue papers: