Qualitative and quantitative indices for simulation systems indistributed interactive simulation

摘要

The fidelity measurement question in distributed interactivesimulation (DIS) needs to be answered. Its resolution is crucial todefining and resolving the interoperability issue of “how tocompare and contrast simulations of varying fidelities on a quantifiablebasis”. Once such a measure of fidelity is modeled, it would allowhigh fidelity simulators to play fairly with low fidelity simulations.The Fidelity Subgroup of the DIS Standards Development Project hasdeveloped a Draft Fidelity Description Requirement (FDR) document, in ahierarchical taxonomy format. This framework provides an object orientedmodular referent to model. The input and output descriptors are definedverbally, linguistically. Recent research would suggest this linguisticbase can easily be transformed into quantifiable measures, indices. Thepaper provides a methodology for providing quantifiable fidelity indicesthrough the application of fuzzy logic