Research Article
SimAIT: An Automatic Initialization Tool for Complex Simulation Systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/3173519.3173537, author={Sirui Bao and Feng Zhu and Yuliang Zhao and Laibin Yan and Yiping Yao}, title={SimAIT: An Automatic Initialization Tool for Complex Simulation Systems}, proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS}, year={2018}, month={8}, keywords={simulation systems simulation scenario automatic initialization automatic code generation nested hash map function library}, doi={10.1145/3173519.3173537} }- Sirui Bao
Feng Zhu
Yuliang Zhao
Laibin Yan
Yiping Yao
Year: 2018
SimAIT: An Automatic Initialization Tool for Complex Simulation Systems
SIMUTOOLS
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3173519.3173537
Abstract
A simulation execution essentially depends on the initial condition, necessitating correct and efficient initialization. However, at present most of the initialization work is done manually, which leads to high costs and error-prone code. To solve this problems, this paper designed and implemented an automatic initialization tool-SimAIT consisting of three modules. Firstly, scenario files are parsed and stored in a Nested HashMap Storage (NHMS). And then the adapter interface function library is established for assigning data in NHMS to variables. Finally based upon the above modules, the initialization program is generated by automatic code generation module. As the case study shows, SimAIT can initialize the simulation systems automatically and efficiently, and the time consumption is obviously reduced compared to that of writing setup code manually.