• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2008

In general, simulation is to predict or evaluate some systems that are hard to be executed in real world, and so usually the target systems to be modeled are large and complex. Trying to observe the dynamics of the systems results in similar level of animation complexity, the model and animation has the same complexity as the system. Trying to display all the graphic objects representing the dynamics of the models being simulated, however, causes the distraction of focus, which results in solving the above listed problems difficult. The redundant graphic objects also increase the computer computation overhead. To solve the problem, a research about a hierarchical animation environment has been proposed a few years ago. In the research, the users can have better focus on the dynamics of system components by selectively choosing the hierarchical level and components within a level of the hierarchically structured model. However, the research has not a modeling methodology for modelers to describe systematically animation part corresponding to dynamics of simulation in a model. This research has defined the modeling methodology of DESHA and defined DESHA-C++, improving the previous research output, as an execution environment of DESHA models. In addition, to use hierarchical animation environment in various problems, this research proposed and developed the distributed simulation modeling environment that connects DESHA environment and HLA.