Adding OPM based executable context to weapons and equipment operational effectiveness simulation

Abstract

Operational Effectiveness simulation is a pervasive method to evaluate the effectiveness of weapons and equipment. However, it always separately focuses on the weapons and equipment to evaluate with little consideration of their context. Besides, currently weapons and equipment operational effectiveness simulations within their context gain extensive attention of weapons and equipment design and manufacturing departments. OPM (Object Process Methodology) is a methodology for design and development of complex systems and its model owns natural executable property, which is suitable for describing the context. So in the paper, to support weapons and equipment operational effectiveness simulation within their context, we use OPM to model the context, and then translate the OPM model to and integrate it in WESS (a weapon effectiveness simulation system we developed) as a simulation model, supporting weapon effectiveness simulation to run within its executable context. An example is designed finally to validate the method.