Distributed Synthetic Environment Correlation Assessment Architecture and Metrics

GameSim is proposing to rapidly design and develop an extensible correlation assessment framework by reusing underlying technologies in Conform, an existing commercial off-the-shelf source data visualization and analysis tool developed by GameSim. GameSim will undertake a detailed research effort to identify the critical data points where miscorrelation can most influence fair fight between distributed flight simulators. This research will focus the framework development towards issues that are most relevant to modern simulation systems. The proposed correlation framework will be extensible to allow systems to introduce data for correlation testing from all runtime components within a distributed flight simulator system. GameSim will use its deep experience with plug-in development to design a correlation assessment system that is open, well documented, and easy to expand with new and better correlation analysis capabilities over time.