DEVS

Models and simulations are an important first step in developing computer applications to solve real-world problems. However, in order to be truly effective, computer programmers must use formal modeling languages to evaluate these simulations.

In this paper, we present the first version of a simulator that allows executing models defined using Discrete Event System Specification and models defined using Specification and Description Language. Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a graphical language, standardized under the ITU Z.100 recommendation, widely used to represent telecommunication systems, process control and real-time applications in general. Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) is a formalism widely used on the simulation field to represent Discrete Event Systems.

Durante la última década se ha avanzado mucho en la estandarización de una base teórica sólida gracias al asentamiento de un framework generalmente aceptado como DEVS. Asimismo, han aparecido un buen número de librerías y productos orientados a paradigmas más evolucionados como los basados en Agentes Inteligentes.

SDL is a graphical language, standardized under the Z.100 recommendation, widely used to represent telecommunication systems, process control and real-time applications in general. In this paper we have three objectives, first present an algorithm that allows the transformation of a DEVS specification to an SDL specification. Second we present a XML representation for the SDL language; this XML representation can help in an automatic transformation of the SDL model representation to a DEVS model representation.