Recent Advances on DEVS Modeling and Simulation Methodologies

DEVS is an increasingly accepted framework for understanding and supporting modeling and simulation. DEVS is a sound formal framework based on generic dynamic systems, including well defined coupling of components, hierarchical, modular construction, support for discrete event approximation of continuous systems and support for repository reuse. DEVS theory provides a rigorous method for representing models, and presents an abstract way of thinking about the world with independence of the simulation mechanisms, underlying hardware and middleware. In this presentation we will introduce and summarize a variety of advances carried out by our team in this field. The article summarizes the contents of our discussion, and it is based on previous articles (whose full version can be found in the list of references).