<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jayendran Venkateswaran</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jafferali, M.Y.K</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young-Jun Son</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Distributed simulation: An enabling technology for the evaluation of virtual enterprises</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Computer software</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cost benefit analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Distributed simulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Finite state automata formalism</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Formal function modelling method</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Internet</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Local area networks</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Manufacture</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Profitability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Simulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Virtual enterprises</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035705526&partnerID=40&md5=7746137f6687f9753dc7ad05e8999d45</style></url></web-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arlington, VA</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">856-862</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This paper presents an application distributed simulation to the evaluation of virtual enterprises. Each company or candidate can use a simulation of its facilities to determine if it has the capability to perform its individual function in the virtual enterprise. Then, these simulations can be integrated into a distributed simulation of the complete enterprise, and used to predict the viability and profitability of the proposed product collaboration. In this paper, a prototype distributed simulation for such a purpose is presented. First, information flows as well as material flows among members in a virtual enterprise are identified using IDEF&amp;Oslash;, a formal function modeling method. Sequences of the identified functions are then presented using the finite state automata formalism. These interactions are then implemented for a commercial simulation package. Finally, a distributed simulation composed of three individual simulations is successfully tested across platforms over both the internet and the local area network.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;cited By (since 1996) 6; Conference of Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference; Conference Date: 9 December 2001 through 12 December 2001; Conference Code: 58995&lt;/p&gt;</style></notes></record></records></xml>