MRE: A Flexible Approach to Multi-Resolution Modeling

Multi-resolution representation of simulated entities is considered essentialfor a growing portion of distributed simulations. Heretofore,modelers have representedentites at just one level of resolution, or have represented concurrent representations in an inconsistent mannel: We address the question of the cost of maintaining multiple, concurrent representations.Wepresent a brief overview of our concept of a Multiple Resolution Entity (MRE) and Attribute Dependency Graph (ADG) both originally described elsewhere, and then compare simulation and consistency costs of some approaches, including our own MRWADG-based approach, to multi-resolution modeling. The cost analysispresented here is thefirst known analysis of its type, and will provide a basis for simulation designers to determine the best, and most cost-effective approach to supporting simulation of entities at different levels of resolution concurrently.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: PADS
• Authors: Anand Natrajan, Paul F. Reynolds Jr., Sudhir Srinivasan
• Keywords: Attribute Dependency Graph, Modelling And Simulation, Multi-resolution Representation, Multiple Resolution Entity, PADS 1997