Ontology-based semantic model of supply chains for modeling and simulation in distributed environment

Abstract

Distributed simulation becomes a suitable tool for simulating complex systems with heterogeneous models, as supply chains, mainly due to the modularity of components. High Level Architecture (HLA) is widely used as a standard to build a distributed simulation system. However, the composability of simulation models in a federation scheme is the main problem to be overcome. Most solutions propose conceptual modeling for developing federation. This work presents an ontology network to conceptualize different domains, taking into account the design of a simulation model for a supply chain in a distributed environment. The purpose of using an ontology network is the possibility of developing a conceptual model with a modular and incremental approach. The considered domains are: data model domain, federation domain, supply chain domain, and enterprise model domain.