The increasing autonomy, complexity, and decentralisation of modern systems require an increasing reliance on large-scale simulation to cope with the social, technical, economic, and environmental challenges of the world we live in. These large-scale simulations aid in the understanding of processes and design of complex systems. The Internet of Simulation (IoS) is an emerging trend towards a decentralised ecosystem of geographical disparate simulations that are readily combined to form more complex simulations. This chapter explores some of the challenges in implementing this distributed simulation system and its use in design, maintenance, analysis, and training of complex systems. These include the management of complex interactions between integrated simulation components and wider operational challenges. The contextualised applications of IoS and some of the relevant issues' post-deployment are discussed.

Chapter Contents:

• Abstract
• 11.1 Internet of Simulation characteristics
• 11.1.1 Simulation as a Service
• 11.1.1.1 Simulation interoperability
• 11.1.2 Workflow as a Service
• 11.1.2.1 Causality
• 11.1.2.2 Instability and validation
• 11.1.3 Relationship to IoT
• 11.2 Engineering applications
• 11.2.1 Design and virtual prototyping
• 11.2.2 Industry 4.0 (Industrial IoT)
• 11.3 Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• 11.4 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Inspec keywords: digital simulation; distributed processing; social aspects of automation; Internet

Other keywords: complex interactions; distributed simulation system; geographical disparate simulations; technical challenges; integrated simulation components; large-scale simulation; complex simulations; IoS; social challenges; environmental challenges; large-scale simulations aid; decentralised ecosystem; modern systems; decentralisation; economic challenges; complex systems; smart autonomous decentralised systems

Subjects: Simulation techniques; Internet software; Information networks; Economic, social and political aspects of computing