1. State-of-the-art,Relevance,andResearchChallenges in Distributed Simulation (DS) and Distributed Virtual Environments (DVE)
Rafaela Vilela da Rocha
VIII Workshop LRVNet
18/12/2009

2. Future Trends in Distributed Simulation and Distributed Virtual Environments: Results of a Peer Study
Steffen Strassburger
School of Economic Sciences - Ilmenau University of Technology
Ilmenau, GERMANY
Thomas Schulze
School of Computer Science - University of Magdeburg
Magdeburg, GERMANY
Richard Fujimoto
Computational Science & Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, U.S.A
Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference
3. Survey
Conducted in the period from September 15, 2007 until October 15, 2007
Consisted of two parts:
1) Evaluation of the relevanceof the technologies (DS/DVE) today and in future
08 questions
2) Research Challenges and Trends
09 questions
4. Questions
classification questions- scale from 0 to 5
5 very high
4: high
3 medium
2: low
1: very low
0: none
open questions- possibilities to comment
5. 61 individuals completed the survey questionnaire
Classification of Participants with regard to their Organization
Relationship of Participants to DS/DVE Technologies
Relationship of Participants to Countries
6. 1) Evaluation of the relevanceof the technologies (DS/DVE) today and in future
7. Applications
1: DVEs for improving the communication between company sites
2: Distributed Training Sessions
3: Joining computer resources for complex distributed simulations
4: Integrating heterogeneous resources for DS
5: Distributed Design Reviews
6: DVEs as a replacement of video conferencing technologies
7: DVEs as an enhancement of video conferencing technologies
Others relevant:
Area of production planning and control
Area of product development
8. The current adoption of the technologies in industry and defense
Defense
Technologicalbarriers
Organizational issues
Industry
A lack of good technical solutions
The needfor more basic research
Current Adoption
9. Economic Potencial
Average = 3.7
Defense
Mission trainingandrehearsal
Decisionsupport
Technology acquisition
Industry
Manufacturing sector
Product development
Distancelearning technologies
Killer Applications

Decisionsupportsystemsforhomelandsecurity/ catastrophes/ crisis situations

10. Virtual Training Applications in general 11. Command and Control tool for remote operations,especiallyinspaceexplorationmissions 12. Virtual Meetings 13. Industrial Supply Chain Simulation