Using Activity Metrics for DEVS Simulation Profiling

Activity metrics can be used to profile DEVS models before and during the simulation. It is critical to get good activity metrics of models before and during their simulation. Having a means to compute a-priori activity of components (analytic activity) may be worth when simulating a model (or part...

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Main Authors: Muzy A., Capocchi L., Santucci J.F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2014-01-01
Series:ITM Web of Conferences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20140301001
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Summary:Activity metrics can be used to profile DEVS models before and during the simulation. It is critical to get good activity metrics of models before and during their simulation. Having a means to compute a-priori activity of components (analytic activity) may be worth when simulating a model (or parts of it) for the first time. After, during the simulation, analytic activity can be corrected using dynamic one. In this paper, we introduce McCabe cyclomatic complexity metric (MCA) to compute analytic activity. Both static and simulation activity metrics have been implemented through a plug-in of the DEVSimPy (DEVS Simulator in Python language) environment and applied to DEVS models.
ISSN:2271-2097