Conceptual Composability Issues in Joint Weapon System-of-Sytems Combat Simulations

Composable Simulation has been one of the hot research issues in the community of joint modeling and simulation for complex system.In this paper,the requirements of composability are first drawn from the background of weapon System-of-Systems combat simulation,then the concepts of composabiltiy,interoperability and reusability are concluded as the common understanding of compoasbility research.The basic composability research issues are extracted from the analysis of composition process and the compostion mechanisms are characterized by the composition patterns.At the end of this paper,the concepts of degree of composability,component compatibility and substitutability are defined,and the composability conceptual framework is formed on the above concepts and relations.